Word: banquet
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...American businessman in Mumbai attends a fancy banquet to raise money for abused women and picks up a local woman there, to complement the underage schoolgirls he's keeping on the side. Another American man makes an elaborate, prideful point of not taking advantage of his Indian masseuse, only to find that he's being taken advantage of on every side. A backpacker pays for her room in a Bangalore ashram by teaching call-center workers to sound like Westerners - only to find that she has turned shy and well-mannered Indians into grasping and much too intimate mock-Americans...
With peace on the streets, civil society is returning to Gaza. On Friday night in downtown Gaza City, the streets are clogged with motorcades taking newlyweds and their families to seaside banquet halls. Just one thing is missing: celebratory gunfire. Hamas has banned partying with firearms. But there has been no cultural crackdown since Hamas took over. Gaza has long been more religious and conservative than the rest of Palestinian society--alcohol disappeared from public view here long ago. But secular women who walk the streets of Gaza City without head scarves or veils say they were more likely...
...Week as well as a semesterly journal dedicated to informing the campus about Hinduism-related issues. Yanamadala has also worked closely to organize events with the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. During his sophomore year, he led the effort to organize 25 student groups to hold a banquet which benefited victims of the tsunami in Pakistan. The next year he was elected secretary of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’ Student Advisory Council, a role in which he oversaw a budget of $50,000 for student activities. Overall, Yanamadala sees his work outside...
...Soon, and without my making a conscious effort to do so, my thoughts settled on a speech my coach had given earlier in the year at the annual Head of the Charles banquet. Speaking in the grandiose surroundings of Boston’s Harvard Club, he noted, “When you’ve been around the sport for as long as I have, you realize that sometimes the wind blows. The kids of course don’t want to realize it; but, sometimes, the wind just blows...
...Almost any other film festival is more conducive to concentrating on the rarified art of cinema. But to resent the banquet of self-promotion and razzmatazz that is Cannes is to miss one big reason people, even critics, go to the movies. At this fabulous buffet, the films are the canapés. Are they tasty? Nutritious? Amid all of Cannes' other enticements-the good food, fine wines, gorgeous people-one is tempted to ask: Who cares? But the 12-day bash, which ends Sunday, has had some lovely tidbits-a wide range of art films with pizzazz, genre pieces...