Word: tango
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Through natural selection, a host of natural enemies have evolved: think the lion and water-buffalo, the cobra and the mongoose, and the police officer and the college student. When each meet, violence typically occurs: The mongoose enters a death-tango with the cobra. The University of California, Los Angeles policeman tasers students in the library. This is nature. However, as human beings, we have the ability to overcome nature’s imperatives through the use of civilizing institutions like mutual respect, and porta-potties. The tailgate didn’t achieve much, but the peaceful existence...
...chose from a list of nine dance styles in the American multi-dance competition, which is divided into five rhythm dances and four smooth dances. Teams had to choose from both the rhythm category, with dances like the mambo, and the smooth division, which included the waltz and the tango. Contestants chose from similar options in the international division. At this year’s American style contest, Sue S. Chen ’07, and Tomas E. Mikuckis ’07 won first in the foxtrot and Linnea N. Meyer ’07 and Carl...
...including the legacies, backwoods hicks, and Rhodes Scholars), the useful “Where It’s At: 5 Well-Loved Concentrations,” and more useful, “Harvard Hookups: 5 Types of Relationships That Are Better Avoided” (including the Teaching Fellow/Tutor Tango and Quad/River Relationship...
It’s a strange comparison to make, but the similarities are all there, from the cartoon pop beat of “9 to 5” (think “The Real Slim Shady”) to the obsessively adolescent humor of “Tango.” Jokes about fake tans are funny to a certain extent, beyond which they are absolutely excruciating...
...salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw a party. His one indulgence, apart from his dogs - he is frequently spotted muddying his pinstripes as he plays...