Word: cocktailing
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...delegation of Harvard administrators and senior faculty, led by University President Lawrence H. Summers, trekked to Mexico City last week for a two-day fiesta of cocktail balls and panel discussions with top Mexican government officials and prominent alumni donors. The visit came almost exactly 10 years after Summers, then a top official at the Treasury Department, orchestrated the multi-billion-dollar loan package that rescued the Mexican peso from free-fall...
Summers’ visit and the DRCLAS advisory committee meeting coincided with a two-day Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) bash in Mexico City. The fundraiser, which kicked off with a cocktail party at the 14th century Chapultepec Castle, drew more than 400 Harvard grads, according to Summers’ spokeswoman Lucie McNeil. Alums each paid $140 to attend...
...select a new name, delay publication for a month, and go through the manuscript, changing scores of references to the eponymous Osaka hostess lounge where much of the action takes place. Despite that setback, the book has finally appeared, and it proves worth the wait. Sayonara Bar is a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist. At first, it seems to be the story of Mary, an attractive young Englishwoman who, upon finishing her studies in Japanese, finds work as an "economy geisha" in Osaka to earn money for travel. Mary's adventures...
...seeded Crimson, unbeaten since December, is working on a cocktail of its own—one that includes a second straight ECAC tournament title and a run at the NCAA championship...
...Teas by the pool and spiked lattes in the student lounge? We could easily have added another category to this list above. Episodes in which Marisa loved the bottle: tremendous. Ultimately, getting with “DJ” was nowhere near as cool as mixing a blackout cocktail of tequila and pain killers...