Word: athenians
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...attend a very fancy charity ball held at the opulent Pierre hotel (61st and 5th Avenue). Amid an Athenian interior (complete with wall-size paintings depicting leisurely Greek life) I make my way through a packed ballroom of record executives, rising starlets, a parade of publicists and assorted hangers-on—including a paralegal named (I am not making this up) Jennifer Justice...
...like the arguments, I love problematic procedure and I like to debate,” he says. “I feel it’s almost like the Classical, Athenian thing, where you go into the Forum...
Here I am reminded of the famous Athenian Oath. I intend to use my renewed dedication to public service derived from my year at the Kennedy School of Government to leave the world better than I found...
...Games Must Go On "How Safe Is Athens?" [May 17] reported that although the three bombs that went off behind an Athens police station did not injure or kill anybody, they hurt global confidence in the security measures for the upcoming Olympic Games. As an Athenian, I was terrorized more by the gloomy perceptions of foreign journalists and security experts than by the bombs. The media's reaction was disproportionate to the seriousness of the incident. Greece has done more than enough to safeguard the success of the Games. Athens is quite a safe place?no need to panic. Most...
...shuddered. The three bombs that went off just before dawn in the Athens district of Kallithea last Wednesday gutted one side of a police station, shattered windows up and down a leafy suburban street and jarred residents from their predawn slumber - but they did not faze Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert at the Athens-based Greek National Defense College, estimates...