It's one of about several dozen clubs here in the city that teach kids three to four hours a day how to play ping pong, and it's located in the basement of an apartment building here on the south side of town.

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For sport, they play ping-pong or swim.

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The odd couple even play on the same doubles team in cutthroat company ping-pong tournaments.

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But ping pong is a fashionable fundraising vehicle on Wall Street, and one challenger brought his own paddle to play Ariel.

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