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The other piece describes a vicious murder in Flint, Mich., of a white teen by a gang of black men, a crime that has inflamed that state's racial tensions.
Meanwhile, the State Department was focused more on lessening Indo-Pakistani nuclear tensions, ending the Afghan civil war, and ameliorating the Taliban's human rights abuses than on driving out Bin Ladin.
5) Analysts worry that Kabila is too beholden to foreign-backed Tutsi military commanders, who may persecute Hutus and inflame ethnic tensions.
The tensions between them--between intellectual, aesthetic, and political impulses that are felt with enormous passion and expressed with great vehemence--make Said an uncommonly interesting, and endlessly controversial, intellectual figure.
If the "basic political tensions" in America today are between pro-big-government and anti-big-government factions, and the pro-big-government faction just won, how are the Journal 's editorial sympathizers supposed to find comfort in that analysis?