Word: tensions
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...campaign itself is an example of this tension. It is atypical in its comprehensive approach: this is the first time the entire University has undertaken a capital campaign at the same time, and the University-wide planning process Rudenstine is using to mark its beginning and end has never been equalled in scope...
...learners" parallels the motivating logic of Title IX-to ensure that women have the opportunity to become such self-confident and self-reliant people, as men have-forces us, as thinking citizens, to re-evaluate the relationship between law, its goals and its application. There has always been a tension in legal decision-making between a strict construction, privileging the letter of the law, and a looser one, in which a more flexible understanding of the law's intention dominates. Perhaps the Young Women's Leadership School is an example of when the letter of the law must give...
Last Wednesday's agreement concludes the three-year drama that has sapped the vitality of PBHA and has created unnecessary tension between the student organization and the University structure that is purported to support it. (PBHA's chief operating officer resigned this past spring, reportedly due to the wasted energy of University haggling.) With no administrative in-fighting to contend with, the student leadership of PBHA, backed by a willing Administration, should have a chance to concentrate solely on community service. And community service, despite the sarcastic grumblings of some Harvard faculty members, is the essential mission of PBHA...
Visiting ancient African monuments, Gates said, reminds African-Americans both of native roots and also of the different paths African-Americans have taken over several centuries. "The continuity, but also the acute awareness of discontinuity, is the tension in the film," he said...
...This tension reflects an anxiety many feel over this case, several attorneys and Court observers said...