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...enough to learn how fate exacts a terrible price for hubris. Before long he was traveling the ancient trade routes, striking coup after coup. In 1974, when the record price for an ancient coin was about $100,000, he bought the rarest of them all, the 5th century B.C. Athena decadrachm, for a seemingly outlandish $420,000. But within the week he sold it for $470,000. That same year he opened a coin shop on tony Rodeo Drive in the heart of Hollywood...
...would compare her to the goddess Athens, the goddess of wisdom and the arts and sciences and protector of the city," Green said. "Like Athena, she was able to shift the winds and calm the seas...
...when August Wilson's Fences premiered on Broadway and Toni Morrison published her masterpiece, Beloved. Both would receive Pulitzer Prizes. In that same year, PBS aired Henry Hampton's Eyes on the Prize, the six-part documentary on the civil rights era, and Cornell scholar Martin Bernal published Black Athena, a highly controversial account of African sources of classical Greek civilization. Meanwhile, Spike Lee and Wynton Marsalis were establishing themselves as masters of film and jazz...
Experts estimate that MIT, for example, is adecade ahead of Harvard in providing computer andnetwork resources. That university's "Athena"system is central to campus life, and mayrepresent a glimpse of Harvard's future. MITprofessors even distribute notes for their classesover...
...kidnappers, is on screen for 90% or more of the film, was too embarassed to admit this little detail until at least half of the patrons had left the theatre. Only from the mind of a two-bit Hollywood actor could such a project burst forth, like Athena from the head of whoever. This movie sucks...