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Every weekend at university campuses around the nation, students play the notorious game of “Beirut.” Little do most people know, the action of tossing a ball into a beer cup derives its name from the sustained bombardment that Beirut, Lebanon suffered during a bloody civil war in the 1970s and 80s. This carnage, however, has transformed into a distant memory for most Lebanese. Beirut is hailed as a rejuvenated city of fortune. Recently, however, Lebanon suffered a stark reminder of how unstable and ill-fated the Middle East can be. The assassination...
...make no mistake, Clissold reports from deep in the trenches. Eventually Pat invests in a variety of companies in China, dealing with everything from beer to brake pads; there's nothing glamorous about any of them. Clissold, a fluent Mandarin speaker, becomes Pat's chief troubleshooter--and there's plenty of trouble. (How does $58 million "disappearing" from the books of a company you've bought grab you?) This is the mid to late '90s, remember, when to many Chinese the definition of capitalism still seemed to be "The foreigner comes, gives me a lot of money, then goes away...
...bureaucrat--"the chief engineer of the First Light Industry Bureau" of the Beijing city government--a Madame Wu Hongbo, otherwise known to Clissold as "my old Chinese sparring partner." The accounts of his tangles with her--she "regulates" the Chinese partner with which Pat has bought a beer company--are hilarious, and sobering...
Other stores, like University Wine, Broadway Market and University Market, have better selections of good beer and much lower prices. If anything, Louie’s closing would give Harvard students no choice but to frequent these other establishments, where better beer comes cheaper and in greater quantity. Freshman now nursing on Busch Light, Milwaukee’s Best—the red-headed stepchildren of real beer—and the occasional uninspiring Corona may one day find themselves exposed to the magic of Sierra Nevada stout and Smutty Nose IPA at a younger age, just because it?...
...moving more volume. With his new diligence in ID’ing students and his higher prices, Harvard denizens have lost the two main impetuses for frequenting his store. They need to be convinced to return to the Superette, not further abused by high prices and a continually bad beer selection. In light of all this, it’s time for us students to exercise our consumer power and take our alcohol expenditures elsewhere. It’ll taste better, cost less, and the longer walk might work off a few of those beer-induced pounds. My advice? Ditch...