Word: tensioning
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...that Huntington's idea "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts ... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative: it fuels xenophobia and paranoia both in the West and in the Islamic world." But once again, she stresses that the ultimate cause of conflict is the tension that lies within Islam itself. It is the "failure to resolve that tension peacefully and rationally" that could "degenerate into a collision course of values spilling into a clash between Islam and the West...
...game filled with historic goals, seemingly endless penalty minutes, and the tension of rivalry, the Harvard men’s hockey team’s 6-1 victory over Yale (12-10-4, 8-7-4 ECAC) on Friday night at the Bright Hockey Center was anything but ordinary...
...student social and residential space on campus. But unlike Harvard’s planned geographical expansion, Princeton’s building proposals will take shape within the bounds of the 380-acres that currently compose the campus. Though Harvard construction across the Charles has been a source of tension with residents of the surrounding community, Cliatt said that Princeton does not foresee any such a problem. She explained that the residences closest to the proposed construction generally belong to the University. “We have the freedom to grow without having a very substantial impact on non-campus neighbors...
...cast, since race isn’t one of the forefront issues,” Johnson, a co-director of the Harvard production of “Cat,” says. “It will be interesting to see if they want to bring out the implicit tension that Williams knew was inherent in the play, or whether they will put a greater emphasis than is originally in the text.” Johnson and Richards, who writes for The Crimson’s magazine, chose to cast the important non-speaking role of the servant...
...last Sunday, and now the northern region of Kosovo wants to secede and rejoin Serbia. I don't have a dog in this latest fight - or even understand it much - but if someone wants to quit the firm, it seems to me you ought to let him go. The tension arises, of course, because the ones eyeing the door usually want to take a pile of the firm's assets along with them. And you do have to question where this will end. Will some family named Knezevic decide it's time to secede from northern Kosovo? Will...