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...parliament. A U.S. ambassador in the region says the relationship between oil wealth and democratic development explains the difference. "Bahrain has a large population that's unemployed and there are debates about resource allocation," he says. "If people can't participate in those debates, that's going to fuel tension and instability...
...possibility of avalanche or falling off the mountain or going down a crevasse. In the Antarctic the temperatures on the whole were colder, the distances were vast and it was a much longer sort of business really. So in our trip to the South Pole, we were under constant tension, for long, long periods. For hours we'd be under great tension. Whereas on a big mountain it would be for short periods. I enjoyed it. I had been keen to get to the South Pole...
...that, he won't settle for anything but the most capable people in his cabinet in order to give himself and France the best chance of succeeding," Duhamel says. He says the idea of grading ministers was actually pushed by Fillon, despite Sarkozy's wariness it would create more tension in a cabinet already prone to division. "In the end, they realized the scheme will create pressure, but it also provides a useful for measuring reform progress and competency," says Duhamel. "That's entirely new in French politics...
...show is the brainchild of writers Gazali and Butet Kartaredjasa. The latter, in particular, is a well-known actor, comedian and vocal government critic, who had several works banned in the 1990s because they supposedly stirred up "social tension." But he is back in the mainstream now, playing the popular part of Si Butet Yogya, a character who shares the same initials and mannerisms as real life President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. As the coordinator of a master's program at the University of Indonesia in political communications, Gazali brings an academic knowledge to the program, but he leavens it with...
...move beyond mere symbolic gestures towards more substantive steps to resolve outstanding issues." As the economic and security architecture of Asia is re-drawn, competition for resources and influence is likely to grow between Asia's second and third biggest economies. But this need not necessarily lead to tension, as Bhaskar points out: "What matters is how China wants to see India in the long run - as a worthy global power, or as an antagonist that must be mired in South Asia. In the past China has leaned towards the latter approach; it has been arming Pakistan to bog India...