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...Crash plays this sort of ethical Ping-Pong with most of its characters and with the audience's sympathy. It stretches coincidence and credulity, but it is less a realistic picture than an updated morality play. The people in it are archetypes if you like the movie, stereotypes if you don't, but creatures seen from above by a compassionate, partially complicit outsider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can He Win His Oscar? | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...thrilling geometry of a well-placed volley. But when Zheng was growing up in China's rural Sichuan province, she knew little about the game. The coaches who approached her in 1990, when she was seven years old, had to explain that tennis was like ping-pong, only with a bigger, fuzzier ball. Still, there were advantages to playing this strange sport. "Because my teammates and I were among the first people to play tennis in China, we always got new outfits," recalls Zheng, now 22, who nabbed her first Women's Tennis Association (WTA) singles and doubles titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Aspiring Aces | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...those dexterous fingers also go to good use in other settings....That is, Shinn plays a mean Beirut game (what did you think we meant?). FM beer pong master Meghan M. Dolan ’06 is still angry about that late, late Saturday night...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Annie M. Lowrey, and Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: War-Torn Warriors | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

Looking for a drinking game for Harvard-Yale that doesn’t involve conspicuous ping-pong balls? Look no further as the denizens of Eliot House—home of more Rhodes scholars than Yale—have adopted an original alternative: Stump. FM observed Eliot House’s weekly post-Stein Club game to see what the hype was all about. According to worldstump.com, “The origins of Stump are shrouded in mystery, but evidence suggests it was invented in the northeast, perhaps at or near Paul Smith’s College in upstate...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Hammered, Toolishly | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...freshman clique and I would shiver on the steps while a club member looked us up and down to see if we were hot enough to get in. Inside we’d be handed alcohol by someone we usually didn’t know, dance or play beer pong, and end up making out with a cute guy that we’d never actually see during the daylight hours. Wooooh, college...

Author: By Maureen D. Connolly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Longer Knocking | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

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