Word: beirutization
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...Rooms. Lee Blessing's meditation on a Beirut hostage and his grieving spouse was the play of the year, its poetic pain matched by Laura Esterman's gutsy portrait of the wife and James Houghton's brilliantly imaginative staging at off-off- Broadway's tiny Signature Theater. The couple was separated in reality yet entwined in fantasy, often at the same moment...
...tailgate will be shorter, students will not necessarily drink less. We stand by our previous assertion that it is more likely that students will drink harder and earlier than they would if the tailgate atmosphere were more relaxed. Without the playful spirit and competition of drinking games such as Beirut and flip cup—games near and dear to the college student’s heart—the only competition will be against the clock. The policies will only aggravate irresponsible drinking, not control...
...students, but not encouraging students to drink hard liquor, which I think was detrimental last year,” Mehta said. Mehta said HoCos this year would have to find another way to attract students to their tailgates, now that “novelty items” such as Beirut and ice luges are banned. Anyone, including student groups and non-HoCo student groups can purchase permits for tailgating on other fields for 13 dollars on a first-come, first-serve basis, according to Trachtenberg.Discussions concerning tailgating policies for all football games have involved the Council of Masters, members...
...controlled fighting robots famous with its show Battlebots, and in doing so contributed to the rapid burnout of the sport. Snowboarders lost their counterculture mystique, and their boards are more plastered with corporate logos than your average NASCAR racer. And baseketball? Don’t even get us started. Beirut is facing the same fate. Lebanon is being slowly Westernized despite continuing political strife, and it’s character is gradually changing under the weight of French and American corporate interests. Stores from Starbucks to Zara cater to an increasingly Western-aligned upper 10 percent, while poorer Lebanese...
...local media reports and Lebanese legal and financial sources, U.N. investigators asked Kenaan about his unexplained wealth and possible link to the looting of al-Madina Bank, which collapsed in 2003 after the discovery of a nearly $2 billion fraud scheme. In his last interview, given to a Beirut radio station, Kenaan angrily denied accusations of corruption, ending the interview by saying, "This is the last statement it is possible for me to give." A few hours later, he was dead...