Word: beirutization
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...visit started out a little slow. After playing basketball with some of the brothers, I was left to watch TV while my friends ran a pledge event known as "Food Beirut." For those not familiar with plain "Beirut," it is a drinking game--much like beer-pong--in which people on opposite sides of a table throw ping-pong balls into cups filled with beer; if a ball goes into a cup, the other team must drink...
...Food Beirut" differs in that the cups are filled with semi-edible leftovers from the freezer mixed together in a blender. Plain "Beirut" is played by everyone; "Food Beirut" is played only by pledges who must engage in the activity until they all puke...
...night picked up from there. Todd and Brian's fraternity had a mini-party featuring your typical selection of alcohol as well as Beirut, not to mention a showing of Austin Powers. After a while, people began to get pretty sloppy, and at about 4 a.m., while looking for Todd, I walked by a brother who was passed out on his feet, propped against the door, fully naked...
...correspondent who broadly expanded the reach and scope of TIME's international editions; after undergoing treatment for lymphoma; in Richmond, Va. German by birth, Prager was schooled in America and got his journalistic start in Asia. He joined TIME in 1965, and was a correspondent in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Beirut and Madrid, among other locales. Following his return to New York, he eventually became managing editor of TIME International...
...would Americans be interested in crippling their own President? Should not the top man remain immune from civil lawsuits while taking care of the nation's problems? MAHMOUD K. WAZZAN Beirut...