Word: beirutization
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...immense popularity of study-abroad currently, it may seem like clichéd overkill to devote more ink to its merits. Thousands of American students nationwide are already fleeing their home universities (generally, although not exclusively, during junior year) to study in exotic locales ranging from Bangalore to Beirut, from urban hubs to bucolic villages...
...freshman girl innocently inquired “Where is Belltower? Is that a dorm?” Hasty Pudding Theatricals celebrated the birthdays of Josh M. Brener ’07 and Ben K. Kawaller ’07 in style in the Gilbert Living Room, complete with two Beirut tables, one ice luge, and zero boys in drag. The AD’s cowboy party contained surprisingly few freshman girls in cowboy hats and miniskirts (insert overdone Brokeback Mountain reference here.) In celebration of the FDA’s approval of Plan B over-the-counter, the Currier...
...opened two days after the beginning of the war in Lebanon, the photographic installation by Fouad Elkoury of the Israeli invasion in 1983 became painfully relevant and extraordinarily moving—especially when the artist himself could not be present at the opening because of the destruction of the Beirut airport. Those who took Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of History of Art and Architecture Carrie Lambert-Beatty’s History of Art and Architecture 10 may find the name Michael Blum more familiar—the Israeli-born artist was a guest lecturer...
...Israelis said, ‘This is normal, there’s always this border stuff.’ The next morning we saw Israeli planes flying over the site, and thought it was only border violence,” she said. Later that day, she heard the Beirut airport had been bombed, and realized this wasn’t a standard skirmish...
...glamor of the situation was not completely lost on Jade F. Jurdi ’07, as he rode back to Beirut in the midst of a bombing campaign...