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The most complex tensions were between Lewis and his close colleague Julian Bond, whose father was a pillar of Atlanta's Negro elite and a close friend of Du Bois'.
(The optical mechanisms arising from such tensions between central figures and partially hidden peripheral figures are a major subject of Elderfield's essay.)
Using violence, anti-colonial rhetoric, and a cult of personality, Mobutu consolidated his power and suppressed tribal tensions.
Soon we can expect a raft of such reports in which Monica will slowly be revealed as a renaissance woman, whose deep knowledge of American poetry is matched only by her understanding of the historical tensions underlying the current insurrections in Kosovo (she worries especially about the Bulgarian connection tho doubts that Kosovo's natives are in fact the heirs of Alexander).
5) Analysts worry that Kabila is too beholden to foreign-backed Tutsi military commanders, who may persecute Hutus and inflame ethnic tensions.