Word: brotherhoods
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...secondhand smoke at a farewell party thrown by several friends in his home ski resort of Whistler, B.C., on Jan. 31. Though journalists saw this as a Clintonesque and laughable defense, the Canadian Olympic Association filed an appeal on Rebagliati's behalf. And the word among snowboarding's tight brotherhood in Nagano was that no one was going to accept any prizes they didn't earn if the giant-slalom medals were redistributed...
...cool. We put on our corduroy sportscoats with the leather elbow patches and had dinner, and he ordered us martinis, and the gin made me as witty as Robert Benchley. We swapped timeless repartee for a couple hours and ate liberal Democratic steaks and felt the glow of scholarly brotherhood...
...Freshmen get swept up and think that nothing can hurt them because there's this idea of 'brotherhood,"' she said. "I think that this incident shows that there was some sort of breakdown...
Benjamin Wynne, 20, underwent two of the most time-honored rites of passage at Louisiana State University last week. He received a pledge pin from the fraternity that voted him into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinker's mouth. Next came a communal bender at Murphy's bar, a frat hangout a few hundred yards from L.S.U. There, the libation of choice was "Three Wise...
Sources: Associated Press, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, VMI, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Parcel Service...