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Harvard has yet to begin its regular season, but it did participate in an exhibition meet against the Korean National Team last week. The meet was very difficult for the Crimson wrestlers, because they had to wrestle international-style freestyle, and not collegiate Greco-Roman style. And many of the wrestlers had never wrestled freestyle before...
Good or bad? Will the Olympic slogan of "Faster, higher, stronger" metamorphose into "Dollars, hype, celebrity"? Will the remaining truly amateur events, such as archery and Greco-Roman wrestling, be marginalized even more? The challenge for the Olympic movement will be to strike a balance between the inevitable marketing excesses and that evanescent thing, the Olympic spirit...
Unless the thieves are caught in the act, stealing art and then selling it is remarkably easy. Ill-gotten Greco-Roman sculptures, Renaissance Bibles or friezes from an Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb can be iced away for a time and realize a generous return. In Switzerland, which treats goods in storage with the same discretion as bank accounts, a work can come out of a bonded free- port warehouse in Zurich or Geneva with clear legal title to the possessor after five years. In Liechtenstein and the Cayman Islands, the term is seven days...
David G. Mitten, Loeb professor of art and archaeology, has been excavating a Lydian and Greco-Roman site called Sardis in present-day Turkey...
...Until about 80 years ago, most people spent up to 90 percent of their education examining Greco-Roman culture," Hankins said. "Now we're reduced to 50 minutes...