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...Spartacus, the gladiator slave who led a rebel war against the Romans, was a Thracian. And they were renowned throughout the ancient world as expert metalworkers; in The Iliad, Homer describes the Thracian King's golden armor as "a wonder to behold, such as it is in no wise fit for mortal men to bear, but for the deathless gods." With little else to go on, historians have tended to rely on ancient Greek depictions of the Thracians as a savage, tribal society that had no politics and no alphabet of its own. But after three months of digging, Kitov...
...Beatles--threatened them with guns. The defense called the accusations completely untrue and said the women were just seeking publicity. Spector, who has pleaded not guilty, is free on $1 million bail. But there's little need to worry about him going on the lam: his hair doesn't fit through the door...
...work hard at staying fit, but that doesn't mean I enjoy it. Running for half an hour or more five or six days a week is just the price I grudgingly pay in time and discomfort to stay healthy...
Edwards says faculty members can use their contacts with colleagues in foreign institutions to better fit students with host institutions...
...which raids school and departmental endowments to create a pool of money for building across the river, have challenged departmental autonomy. Mass. Hall’s moves to unify alumni databases and direct incoming funds to the parts of the University it sees fit will decrease fundraising independent of the central administration. And authority within the administration has also been centralized, as when Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby created a “super-dean” in charge of both academics and student life at the College, displacing former Dean of the College...