Word: greek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classical Greece the elected magistrates of Athens, called Archons, held secret ballots to banish leaders when they were accused of serious transgressions. Last week a similar process began in the Greek parliament after two government commissions recommended that criminal charges be brought against former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. The panels accused Papandreou of complicity in the Bank of Crete scandal and of ordering illegal wiretaps. Parliament is expected to refer the charges to a special criminal court...
Papandreou was also accused by a second commission of running an extensive wiretapping operation out of the headquarters of the Greek secret service. According to the report, he routinely snooped on political opponents, journalists, even members of his own Cabinet...
...this approach, though, that the book ultimately founders. The canon, it would seem from reading Leibowitz's digressions on everything from Paul Valery to obscure ancient Greek dramatists, is alive and well--and certainly formative in most Americans' sense of themselves...
...remember when I came to Harvard in 1985, with expectations at big as Widener's bowels. I thought I was ascending Mt. Olympus to consort with the Greek gods...
...proctor meetings. Contrary to popular belief, the term "proctor" does not derive from the Greek proktos, meaning anus. Instead, it comes from the Middle English procutour, meaning "one who holds meetings until at least half of those present fall asleep." Our proctor--and this is not a joke--once took 15 minutes to tell us not to throw oranges out of our windows at passing administrators...