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...tribes clustered beneath a huge crystal chandelier, awaiting their turn to approach Crown Prince Fahd. One by one they knelt before him, asking a special favor or voicing a complaint; the portly Prince nodded in sympathy, then told a member of his entourage what must be done. This ancient ritual, known as the majlis, enables even the lowliest Saudi citizen to express his desires or worries to the royal family. Supposedly it also keeps the royal family attuned to the faintest rumblings of discontent...
...procession crept along the traffic-snarled Las Americas Expressway, the candidate began booming out "Buenos días" from the open bus door to motorists and pedestrians along the way. Some waved and some yelled back, but a good many just stared, startled by this manifestation of that peculiar ritual, the American presidential campaign...
February, 1977: Euphoria--There seemed to be a little more pre-Beanpot thought now that fancy had become ritual. I tried to characterize the participants. Boston University, traditional collegiate hockey power, was The Revered. Boston College, whose blown-dry kiss-me-I'm-Irish throng would fill half the seats in the Garden (the three remaining schools took the other half) was The Beloved. Northeastern, the commuter school on Huntington Ave. that never seemed to park itself in the 9:00 pm finals, had a Sports Information Director known as Jack "6:00" Grinold. The Huskies were The Damned...
Once again it was time for Big Oil's profits parade. Against a backdrop of soaring gasoline costs and exploding heating-oil prices, one oil company after another last week went through the now familiar ritual of releasing eye-popping reports of annual earnings. Exxon's earnings on revenues of $84.3 billion totaled $4.3 billion, making it the most profitable corporation in American industry. Yet even as the announcements rolled in, Senate and House conferees were reaching final agreement on a compromise over a key aspect of Jimmy Carter's nine-month-old call for a windfall...
...Vegetarians can get good nutritious meals, a rare find at Harvard, and even the carnivores are generally pleased with the diversity of the fare, although calls for more meat periodically arise (tough on a low budget). Fresh-baked bread appears every so often. Milk and cookies is a weekly ritual, and people may sit around the living room for hours, unlike the get-a-cookie-and-run strategy prevalent in the Quad Houses. Jordanites can eat at the Houses on a meal exchange program (since you can eat at the Jordans) and pay less for the same meal...