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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...maybe you were just planning on spending time this year making inroads into your social club of choice. Punch is just around the corner! Consider organizing a game of backgammon with the gentlemen of the Delphic Club over some afternoon chamomile. Or if you are looking for a really down-to-earth set, try the Spee Club. We hear they’re above showing off. Nevermind, check that: apparently “they’re above Schoenhof?...

Author: By Crimson staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Camp Harvard Revealed | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...even outside if you're under an umbrella. I don't see how they will enforce this." Enforcement is likely to be even harder outside the big cities. Smoking is a way of life in rural Turkey, where men spend much of their free time in hazy coffeehouses, playing backgammon. (See pictures of the streets of Istanbul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights Out: Turkey is Next to Ban Smoking | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...descending sunlight halfway. With their wheelbarrow rattling along, Ollie and The Stable Boy moved quickly towards the H.M.S. Visconti. The Stable Boy had met the trading vessel’s wizened old Captain in a tavern on Fleet Street the previous week. After a night of drink, argument, and backgammon, The Stable Boy had convinced the Captain to take on two strangers with no papers. The Captain’s asking price had, of course, been outrageous. But now Monsieur Jacques’ money could be put to use.Ollie and The Stable Boy boarded the ship.“We?...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...just holding out for a penis joke? Well then, you’re doomed to comp the Lampoon. Or maybe you were just planning on spending time this year making inroads into your social club of choice. Punch is just around the corner! Consider organizing a game of backgammon with the gentlemen of the Delphic Club over some afternoon chamomile. Or if you are looking for a really down-to-earth set, try the Spee Club. We hear they’re above showing off. Nevermind, check that: apparently “they’re above Schoenhof?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Camp Harvard Revealed | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

Still, in cosmopolitan Cairo and Beirut, most hotels and some trendy restaurants take advantage of tradition and capitalize on the late Ramadan hours, putting up large tents where friends meet for the late Sohour meal, mint tea, games of cards, backgammon, music and of course the Shisha. Business people have taken advantage of these traditional gatherings to make contact with clients and government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Business During Ramadan | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

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