Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December romances that will get to you--it's the jumpy camera shots and quick angle changes that might make you regret your Raisinettes if you are pregnant, prone to motion sickness or simply sitting in the wrong part of the theater. The direction might match the tension of the dialogue, but be advised to bring your dramamine...
...could use regular "town meetings" to diffuse tension, guidelines (but not rules) to avoid offensive postering and mandatory campus meetings on the scale of the first-year plagiarism conference to discuss appropriate behavior on a campus as diverse as ours. These should be the core of our program instead of the standard "feel good" events like picnics and cultural shows...
...diversity. One central office can be more organized and efficient, and it can be more accessible to students who will not be confused by its specific purpose. An office like this needs a strong, full-time leader with a clear mandate from the University to try to eliminate racial tension and to also deal with problems that occur...
...South Africans is much more urgent than what Americans faced in the 1780's, for maintaining the status quo is not an option for them. In post-Revolutionary America, many people were satisfied with the loose federal system of the Articles of Confederation, and the great source of political tension was the struggle between those who sought to maintain the Articles and those who hoped to supplant them with a more centralized system...
...South Africa such tension does not exist because all the major groups--the African National Congress (ANC), the National Party (NP), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)--have denounced apartheid, the old regime based on the separation of racial groups. the only possible direction then is forward, and the only viable means for going forward is negotiation. Despite these realities, however, negotiations have stalled with the ANC's withdrawal from the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa...