Word: tensioning
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...Huang's bosses in the provincial capital created their own team to investigate his allegations. But the implicit tension between growth and fighting graft was visible when the team was told to "strike a balance between the struggle against corruption and economic development," according to documents released by the city to rebut Huang's essay. In the event, the committee ruled that the case was an "economic dispute" rather than corruption and that construction should continue. After lobbying against the ruling for two years, Huang contacted the People's Daily website, which posted his essay after dispatching reporters to interview...
...horrified. He was supposed to ponder the tension between East and West in modern Japan, the ever-present shadows of the past in sprawling Kyoto, the sense of both fascination and alienation in a foreign land or just how a clump of white sand is supposed to signify mankind’s insignificance in the cosmos. How was stalking Japanese women supposed to demonstrate his thoughtfulness, maturity, and fitness for acceptance to an Ivy League college?! Like hell...
...Harvard loses its leading advocate for the uniqueness of the first-year experience. For many of our students, life in the Yard highlights for the first time the need to balance self-reliance and independence with mutual and shared responsibility. Ibby’s sensitivity to this tension-—as a compassionate mentor and a fair disciplinarian-—has made her a model for first-years and proctors, alike. She has made first-years’ lives better...
...have the expertise. But as a reasonable and educated citizen, I can question whether it’s effective for the United States to hold, interrogate, report and embarrass people because of some dubious affiliation with Islamist organizations. That’s certainly not lessening the tension between the United States and the Islamic world; it is, however, keeping us in a constant state of fear. It’s somehow evocative of the days before the US invasion of Iraq when Tom Ridge appeared at the podium to deliver a message not unlike the following exaggeration...
Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan says that the case will not exacerbate “town-gown” tension...