Word: banquet
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...with tradition. Because only four competitors are allowed to compete in a given event—two from Harvard/Yale and two from Oxford/Cambridge—this created a unique environment for the athletes. “The atmosphere surrounding [the event] was really interesting. We even had a banquet afterward where we had to dress up for it,” Weiler said. “I don’t think I’ve ever had that before.”The opportunity to compete at the HYOC meet has been yet another crucial experience to help...
...Protesters plan to "lay siege" to London's financial institutions, according to G-20 Meltdown's website. There's even the promise of a "Banquet at the Bank" and the chance to "feast on a rare delicacy: bankers' brains!" Features like that are all meant in jest, says Michael Rainsbro, a spokesman for the group. "It's April Fool's day," he says. "Do you seriously think we're gonna go down and eat bankers' brains? Come...
With the release today of Apple's "smallest iPod Shuffle ever," the pioneering tech bellwether continues to wean us off its charismatic founder, Steve Jobs. Until recently, the new Shuffle would have been unveiled as an appetizer during a bigger media banquet - one of those wonderful little trinkets that Jobs would show off at the start of, say, a Macworld conference...
...tempting smell of grease from the Kong is what usually drags in hordes of hungry undergraduates craving spring rolls. But last Friday, it was the Chinese Student Association’s Banquet 2009 that had undergrads scrambling to dig their chopsticks into some lo mein and get their hands on a dumpling or two. For this festive affair, Leverett dining hall was transformed into a party scene packed with more than 350 guests, including students, tutors, and even professors. Dinner, consisting of a never-ending 14 courses, was catered by the Peach Farm restaurant in Chinatown. The restaurant?...
Confusion about bats is understandable, considering the scientists who named them were equally confused. According to vampire-bat expert Bill Schutt, a zoologist and author of the book Dark Banquet, about 10 species of bats were erroneously named "vampires," while the true blood feeders were given more innocuous-sounding Latin names. "Bats [with scientific names that include] Vampyrum, Vampyrops, Vampyrina, Vampyressa, Vampyriscus and Vampyrodes aren't sanguivores [blood feeders], while Desmodus, Diaemus and Diphylla are true vampires," he says...