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...tone in OT could shift from laughter to grave silence in the moment it took a soldier to scream in pain or explode into anger. Captain Katie segregated the angriest amputees. Her morning sessions bristled with tension. Metallica and Motorhead blared from speakers. One specialist who had trouble picking up a peg with his above-the-elbow prosthesis flung the $115,000 device against a wall. "I ain't doing it anymore," he shouted. Another threw the metal pedal of his wheelchair into a costly exercise machine...
Rebekah arrived and kissed me as if nothing had changed. After a couple of hours, however, I sensed a little tension. I knew what was coming: a Washington Post story covering the Iraq incident had identified Judith as my wife. We were legally separated, but I apparently had left Rebekah with the idea that I had been divorced. She felt misled, telling a friend, "The grenade didn't kill him, but I'm going...
Higginbotham, a former director of undergraduate studies in the Af-Am department, is known for her academic and advising talents. Indeed, she told The Crimson in a March 22, 1994 article that “If there is a tension in my life it’s because I have always tended to spend a lot of time with students, and I realize that I need to balance that with my right to do my work.” In her newest role, the tension will “probably be business as usual for me,” said...
...more elaborate sermon on Islam and the West while he is visiting a nation with some 70 million Muslims. "It may be like his predecessor," says the Vatican source, referring to John Paul II's knack for staying relevant in world affairs. "He wants to create a positive tension. Then it becomes a political trip as well." At this point, though, the real political feat will be getting to Turkey in the first place...
...reference was undoubtedly the most provocative moment of a provocative lecture. In a sense, explicitly including the Muslim prophet by name, and citing the concept of jihad, was a flashing neon signal to the world that the soft-spoken Pope intends to make himself heard clearly on this defining tension of our times...