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...woman whose early life had been scarred by the tragic death of her mother, Christina Onassis, and circumscribed by the pressures of enormous wealth - an estimated $600 million she picked up as sole heiress to her mother's fortune. Even so, Athina, the last direct descendant of the legendary Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had reason to expect more last weekend. She grew up believing she would inherit the remainder of her family's fortune - in excess of $1 billion - and assume a hereditary role at the helm of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, an organization managing corporate and charitable...
...untamed.Beyond a sense of humor, Russell’s instruction of Great Books makes good use of his awe-inspiring linguistic talent. Armed with a whiteboard, a recent discussion of Psalms saw Russell explore the origins and departures of the word “holy” from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Lithuanian. (Later, in the midst of serving Armenian cherry-flavored brandy out of a Diet Pepsi bottle, Russell declined to tabulate how many languages he knows, but it seems they would number about 20.)Seminars in the humanities are pervaded by a one-upmanship...
...should be all too familiar with this brattiness and those bruised egos. Between two sisters and several roommates, I should be outright sick of Midol and melodrama. Tired of Greek sororities and female societies (Kappa Beta Bee what?). Dozens of dames in a dorm—I must be requesting damage control...
...your mind does indeed grow more agile as you age, one of the things that may help it do so is the amount of glue you carry around in your brain--glia (Greek for glue) being what the 19th century German anatomists called it. Only about half the mass of the brain is composed of gray matter, or nerve cells; the rest is white matter, the connecting tissue that, in a sense, glues it all together. Much of that white matter is made of conductive nerve strands, and covering each fine wire is a fatty sheath of myelin that keeps...
...gets really tiring after a while.”Many Tulane students say they found that Harvard’s social life and late night scene were not particularly inclusive, especially when compared to Tulane, which they say has a more open social atmosphere marked by an active Greek life and campus-wide party opportunities.“Your final club parties are fun,” says Joshua Miller, “but they’re ridiculously closed off. At frats, maybe it’s because they’re outside, but they’re like...