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...Term limits have roots in ancient Greece, where beginning in the 6th century B.C. many Athenian officials were elected by random lottery and permitted to serve only a year. Some of their Roman counterparts were also limited to serving just a single term...
...Louis. Everyone has a tear or two for gritty cities facing hard times - for the Detroits, the Clevelands, the Buffalos - but who spares a thought for the elegant dowager reduced to reusing tea bags? St. Louis was never a rude boomtown. It was the Midwestern city with an Athenian heart, valuing music and philosophy, nurturing a great university, birthing poets and hosting, in one incredible zenith year, both the World's Fair and the Summer Olympics...
...Bush and Cheney don’t seem like lascivious types, but it may be that this potent combination of sexual sublimation and free time in fact explains the administration’s misguided Iraq adventure. As the Athenian women in Aristophane’s Lysistrata and today’s French know all too well, more time fucking means less time for fucking up the world...
...ancient Athenian idea of a cultured and intelligent person was someone who participated in civil life,” says Payack...
...production of Aristophanes’s satire, “The Wasps.” The overture began with taut strings that emanated an aura of stress. Flutes followed, shrieking. This tense introduction represented the “wasps” referenced in the title—actually overzealous Athenian jurors in Aristophanes’s text.Although the orchestra, sounding out of tune, had gotten off to a rocky start, it finished the piece very professionally. The overture moved into a calm interlude—the flutes were no longer shrieking, but humming—and finally resolved into...