Word: pong
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...brewed, with players ranging from Harvard College freshmen to a Winthrop House security guard. “It’s fun and easy to learn,” says Katrina L. Welch ’11, one of many players to talk about the relaxing aspects of the pong. “The rules are simple—there isn’t much to learn to get in the game.” But not all ping pongers were as willing to give up their street cred, defending the difficulty of their oft-belittled sport...
...concert Tuesday night in Pyongyang, before 1,400 North Koreans, the orchestra played An American in Paris, part of an artistic adventure that has whipped up excitement not just in musical circles but in diplomatic ones. When the Philharmonic's visit was announced, images of the Ping-Pong diplomacy of an earlier era were revived. In 1971 the visit to Beijing by a group of U.S. table tennis players foreshadowed the end of China's Cold War-era seclusion and a new era in relations between Washington and Beijing. Now, the Philharmonic's concert comes as Pyongyang shuts down...
...This is where the German's cruelty comes in: The counterfeiters were given unheard of privileges - decent food, clean quarters and beds, even a ping pong table, which, inevitably, the rest of the camp knew about and which, naturally, covered them with guilt verging on shame...
...party with a group of Indian delegates, they taught her some Indian dance moves and she showed them how to break it down American-style. The Asian delegates are also exposed other things new and crazy—and sometimes even natural. Aside from American booty shaking practices, beer pong, and Harvard’s expansion plan, the trip to Cambridge is the first time many delegates have ever seen snow. The Malaysian delegate that Wei hosted last year was ecstatic about the fluffy flakes that many Harvard students so bemoan. “We took her outside and made...
Cassidy grew up playing army games with cousins and re-creating Civil War battles on a Ping-Pong table covered with fake grass and tiny trees in the basement of his Carmel, Ind., home. He joined the Army Reserve in 1992, and the Indiana National Guard in 2003, intending to serve 20 years, get a pension and then retire to teach junior-high history. He served in Bosnia in 2004. And in April 2006, when the Army called, Cassidy left his landscaping job for Iraq. "Some guys had gone to Iraq three times at that point, and he hadn...