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...Joan Benoit, 25, glided across the finish line of the 87th Boston Marathon in the time of 2:22:42. That was almost three minutes faster than the previous women's record for the distance, held jointly by New Zealand's Allison Roe and Norway's Crete Waitz. Incredibly, Benoit finished less than 14 minutes after the men's winner, Greg Meyer, 27, who crushed his own competition with a time of 2:09. Said Women's Runner-Up Jacqueline Gareau of Canada: "The 2:20 marathon is the next mark for women...
...revisionist view of his career is perhaps less radical than earlier ones. Here was a provincial man, born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in 1541 in Crete, who by the age of 27 had attained a modest success as an icon painter in the Byzantine manner. He then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During...
...Vatican would like to achieve unity with the Eastern Orthodox Church before turning to Canterbury or the Lutherans. Says Orthodox Bishop Eirinaios of Crete: "I consider the unity of Christians a vital condition for peace on earth." John Paul no doubt agrees, and has declared that he wishes union between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches by the year 2000. But the process is agonizingly slow. The meeting of the Orthodox-Catholic joint commission this month in Munich will only be the second such discussion since the Council of Florence in 1439. The always suspicious Church of Greece is wary...
...slums of Piraeus and the village cafes of Crete, in shipowners' salons and bouzouki bars, one word pulsates across Greece like the rhythm of a sirtaki dance: allagi (change). Many Greeks are passionately frightened of allagi, others are hoping for it, and a vast number do not know quite how to feel about the prospect. Six million voters will decide the issue on Oct. 18, when they either reconfirm the conservative New Democracy Party that has ruled Greece for seven years or bring to power the first Socialist -and openly anti-American-government since the end of World...
...dollar's 25% rise against the drachma has boosted tourism in Greece 22%, claims the Greek National Tourist Organization. Many travel agents and hotel owners doubt the official figures, arguing that not only are there fewer tourists but they spend less. Nevertheless, hotels in Athens and on Rhodes, Crete and Corfu, the country's most popular attractions, will all be full this summer...