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...There's been tension in the Army, and between the Army and police, for some time. Could this violence have been avoided? It could have been if the police and Army leadership, and also the government as a whole, had taken the complexity of the issue much more seriously and addressed it in a timely fashion. Instead, we allowed it to drag on and fester. There was a certain laissez-faire attitude that has proved very costly...
...needs to be taken into account. “The Durham majority-minority situation is important,” Phelps said. “The Duke environment is like Harvard in that there’s a lot of rich white students, and that sets up a lot of tension.” Nicole M. Laws ’06 raised the question of lack of DNA evidence in the Duke case, which organizers said is a common misunderstanding. “DNA evidence is corrupted by air,” said Heather Wilson, OSAPR’s Education Specialist...
...Keogh, the stuffy and sanctimonious townsman who hopes to wed to Pegeen. Martin’s fussy, cowardly antics make him a loveable and laughable anti-hero.Spillane-Hinks’ directing is typically excellent; in this, her last show at the College, she demonstrates particular skill in drawing out dramatic tension in building the conflict between Christy and his father to its inevitable climax. She also places just the right amount of emphasis on particularly funny moments. Given the difficulty of the characters’ thick accents and rapid speech, Spillane-Hinks does an exceptional job in trying to make...
...moldering soul tropes--over-the-top strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single to top the British charts powered only by downloads) is emotional tension balanced perfectly with innovation. NEIL YOUNG LIVING WITH WAR From the first fuzzy chords, the question posed by Young's 32nd album is not Why does Neil hate George Bush? but How much does Neil hate George Bush? The answer: Um, a lot. But hate isn't all that interesting...
...willing," this time, may not be many. Iran's status as the world's fourth-largest oil exporter will likely preclude significant progress in isolating it - the rising tension between the West and Iran has already been cited as a major factor driving oil prices to record highs. Also, Russia, China and many in Western Europe fear that Washington may be preparing the way for another "regime-change" intervention in the Middle East, a course of action they'd deem a more immediate danger to global security than anything being cooked up in Iran's nuclear labs...