Word: tensions
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...species' past. Mad scientists were perhaps obligatory, but who would have thought that both Neanderthals and australopiths communicated using not language (fair enough) but esp? And in both novels, two sets of primitives, good and bad, battle it out; younger researchers meet their former professors under bizarre circumstances; sexual tension breaks out between scientists and primitive hominids; and fieldworkers become the innocent pawns of dark political and military maneuverings...
Additional prizes went to Natan J. Leyva '96 for "The Tension Between Rights and Democracy: Rawls and Habermas in Dialogue"; James B. Loeffler '96 for "A Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History...
Madonna: Well, to avoid aggravating global tension, I would say it's a tie [laughs]. No, no, I am serious now. See here, I am working like a canine all the way around the clock! I have been too busy even to try the goulash that makes your country one for the record books...
When students from different backgrounds do spend time together socially, students say there is often an underlying, unspoken tension...
...Davis, class tension "comes up mostly in terms of comfort with being in the position of consumer. I'll go into a store with a friend, and [they will] just have a sense that they know how to work the system better. They'll know to ask questions about the product...