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...However, the unrelenting tension of the production is both its greatest strength and weakness...
...Though I see homeless people on a regular basis, I still have not become desensitized to their plight. I still feel awkward when they ask me for money and I am not able to give. I feel a certain tension when I walk past them, wanting to help them, but knowing that I can’t take away their problems by simply giving them some spare change...
...commented, “You get tired of people asking you for money and not doing the best with the money, but on other hand we don’t use our money in the best way either.” This statement represents another form of tension that arises in our interactions with homeless people...
...Tenet chronicles the tension between himself and Vice President Cheney, as well as his arguments with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, but has mostly kind words for President Bush. Of Bush's leadership after Sept. 11 he writes, "He was absolutely in charge, determined, and directed." Still, Tenet is skeptical about the outcome of the war in Iraq, particularly about the so-called surge strategy. "It may have worked more than three years ago," he writes. "My fear is that sectarian violence in Iraq has taken on a life of its own and that U.S. forces are becoming more...
...will to survive, its quest for democracy, its exploitation of both Indians and slaves, it created the template for so many of the struggles--and achievements--that have made us who we are. It contained in embryo the same contradictions that still resonate in America today--the tension between freedom and authority, between public purpose and private initiative, between our hopes and our fears...