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...most of Measures, screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs and director Tim Vaughan take the elevator. They observe the story's complexities and keep the finger-pointing to a minimum. They pump up the tension by obliging John, like a thriller hero caught between the law and the bad guys, to battle both the long odds of finding a treatment and the fiery truculence of Ford's Dr. Stonehill. But while Ford growls and prowls like Darth Vader advancing on Han Solo, Fraser keeps the story anchored in reality. Meredith Droeger does too: as the Crowleys' afflicted daughter, she's a smart...
...defensiveness on the other, resulting in sibling gridlock. Sometimes a therapist or clergyperson needs to referee family meetings. For status updates, Patricia Mulvey, a geriatric-care manager in New York, favors simultaneous e-mails. "That way," she says, "Susie won't hear it before Joey, and that can reduce tension...
...realized this week when fractious rebels from the southern Niger delta first reunited, then on Saturday ended their four-month cease-fire and promised an "all-out onslaught" on foreign oil companies in which "nothing will be spared." A second giant worry is that the political impasse will exacerbate tension between northern, mostly Muslim Nigerians - who dominate the army and government and from whose ranks Yar'Adua hails - and southern Christians, whose most senior leader is the Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan. As always, the split is the key issue in Nigerian politics, as northern politicians line up behind Yar'Adua...
...inflammatory comments circulating which suggest a coup might be needed to pull the country out of a constitutional crisis in Yar'Adua's absence. A military coup would be akin to dragging us back to the dark days of our nation's history." He acknowledged, however, that "there is tension in the country, everybody knows that." Chief of Defense Staff, Air Marshal Paul Dike, seemed to suggest that tension involved the army itself when, the same day, he called on Nigeria's soldiers to "justify the trust of the nation's leadership by exhibiting unflinching loyalty." (See pictures...
Victor is afraid. Twice last year he told panels investigating the violence that shook Kenya after a rigged vote in 2007 how leaders of his own Kalenjin tribe had whipped up ethnic tension, and paid boys to kill people and torch homes. His testimony helped prove that the violence was a well-organized political power play rather than some paroxysm of tribal rage. But now, like many others who testified alongside him, Victor (not his real name) gets text messages threatening him with death. He can't find work, other Kalenjin shun him, and strange men attacked his eight-year...