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Nothing musty about this classic. You play Kratos, a warrior roaming the world of Greek mythology and beating up on whoever gets in his way, using a fast, fancy, two-bladed fighting style amid huge, crashing, looming Clash of the Titans backdrops that give the action a dark, weighty, epic atmosphere. Keep an eye out for cameos by actual mythological celebs like Medusa, Poseidon and Ares, the titular war god. See? It?s even educational. (For PlayStation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games: 5 Video Games Worth Sore Thumbs | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...Creative Accounting? Eurostat refused to certify Greek and Italian deficit data for 2004, suggesting the figures - 6.1% and 3% of GDP respectively - could yet be revised upward. Euro-zone countries' deficits are capped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

Strolling through "From Eastern Han to High Tang: A Journey in Transculturation," it's easy to lose one's bearings. In the exhibition, which opened at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum last week, stately stone Buddhas commingle with Greek gods and goddesses, an Iranian prince, and a bare-chested warrior with a rosy complexion and deep blue eyes. A dragon-edged jade disk vies for attention against vases of swirling Roman glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glorious Mess | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...forcing bereaved relatives to delay funerals for weeks. "All three municipal cemeteries are clogged up," says Athens' Deputy Mayor Katerina Katrivanou. According to a private study, 80% of the greater Athens region's 29 cemeteries cannot take any more burials. The problem is partly a result of a macabre Greek tradition. Burial plots are rented for three years, after which the grave is dug up to check that the body has fully decomposed. If it has, the plot can be released for a fresh burial; if not, the lease is extended for another year. After that, the remains are reinterred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grave Issue | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...succeeds in his hopes to reignite TDX’s Crimson tradition—minus the house—the frat would be the fifth on campus and the second new Greek club to come to Harvard in the last two years. Though Delta Upsilon’s Harvard chapter withdrew its official frat status this year—the men now call themselves the Oak Club—Greek life apparently remains strong...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New frat looks to the ladies for advice on men | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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