1.   And a huge explosion rocked Grozny, the Chechen capital, on Monday, and the increasingly tense city was closed completely to traffic.

2.   A fragile calm settled over this tense city Monday, but U.S. military commanders braced for possible outbreaks of looting and violence.

3.   A gang fight between Muslims and Christian migrants erupted into fierce rioting Sunday in this already tense city.

4.   By late morning and early afternoon, the tense city began to stand down, reopening the airports, river crossings and other transportation links.

5.   I sought explanations at the trendy pedestrian mall downtown, one of the few places in this tense city where tourists and foreigners feel welcome.

6.   Once a still, tense city, its streets emptied by terror, Port-au-Prince now teems with activity, including world-class traffic jams and spirited political debate.

7.   Residents reached by telephone described a tense city with riot police patrolling areas around the blasts.

8.   Such friendly smiles might be a rarity in this tense city, but bomb scares are not.

9.   Palestinians stoned Israeli troops and burned an Israeli flag Friday, the seventh day of clashes in this tense city.

10.   Outside the settler compound of Beit Hadassah, settlers on Friday planted flowers and saplings in a new flowerbed to underscore their determination to remain in the tense city.