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...Jesse Owens’ barrier-breaking gold medal performance during the 1936 Games in Nazi Germany is just one example—have shown that the Olympics truly can serve Coubertin’s vision. It is a travesty that in today’s climate of simmering international tension, the Olympics is losing its relevance; not even the pretence of using the Games for its original purpose, to promote accord between the people and countries of the world, remains. Instead, we have an unabashed celebration of corporate sponsorship, Nielsen ratings, and hollow jingoism. With painted plastic cows marching, hula...
However, what would have amounted to climactic tension is counteracted by the reader’s knowledge that the novel is a historical romance, and therefore must end happily...
...band the chance to perform with many of their musical heroes in Brooklyn or just getting to know the story of the people living next to the site. From his behavior, Chappelle’s claim that he ran away because he couldn’t rectify the tension between the negative messages of his comedy and his desire to play a positive role in the world is surprisingly plausible. Although the movie is, according to the press notes, inspired by “Wattstax,” a legendary concert film starring Isaac Hayes, Richard Pryor, the Staple Singers...
...most of the media care that the women in science debate had merely provided the means by which the Faculty expressed its true grievances: Summers’ brusque and sometimes disrespectful management style. This actual source of tension had been building for years. In August 2003, just weeks before my first day at Harvard, the New York Times Magazine ran a cover story on Summers entitled “Harvard Radical.” Summers was only a couple years into his tenure, but already his management techniques were under attack. The article quoted one Harvard Law School professor...
...their lives got harder: it cited a study from the Families and Work Institute that found that women over the past generation experienced about the same amount of conflict juggling work and family, while men's sense of frustration rose sharply. "In 1977, about one-third of men reported tension about the juggling act; in 2002, more than half said they...