Word: greeke
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Michail devoted the little free time he had to the Greek community and to his friends, Sarakinos said...
While the Singhs have added soups, grape leaves stuffed with rice and spices and taboulen (a parsely and cracked wheat salad) to the menu over the past few months, the overall selection is still mostly limited to Cheese-laden Greek salad, hummos, and beef, chicken or lamb shisk-kabobs...
Pherinos, who hails from a family with an African-American mother and a father of Jewish and Greek descent, explained some of the challenges facing students who also find themselves in his shoes...
...knows many things," wrote the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, "but the hedgehog knows one big thing." In his famous 1953 essay, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin used that conceit to divide Russian writers into hedgehogs and foxes. Hedgehogs, he suggested, are individuals who relate everything to a single, all embracing principle, while foxes are those who see a multiplicity of things without fitting them into some universal system. (Dostoevsky was a hedgehog, Tolstoy a fox.) Berlin regarded this contrast as a profound philosophical difference that divided writers, thinkers and even politicians...
When I decided to attend Harvard, I knew I would be giving up the raucous Saturday afternoon football games. Harvard will never draw 40,000 people for every home game, but then again, I don't miss any semblance of a Greek system. Besides, I'm not a huge fan of small towns, and my classes here never cease to amaze...