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...setting. I’m not sure that I really understand its plot, or that I’m really supposed to (the same goes for the play’s name). From what I can gather, the story revolves around the mythical Atalanta, the fittest of the Greek heroines, who challenges suitors to race her if they wish for her hand. The one man who is able to win her over throws golden apples in her path, which, in McCarthy’s version at least, Atalanta stops to pick up because she associates them with apple...
...good element). Kayla Y. Rosen ’04, as Atalanta, drew us in with her melancholy beauty and makes us understand her world—her hobby is seducing men and then killing them. As Orion, John Dewis managed to convey the brash arrogance which characterizes the Greek gods, even while wearing a ridiculous track suit (for running the race...
...usual hurdles, like finding enough hotel space and finishing construction on the venues. But some less conventional problems have cropped up, too. Initially, the government planned to license extra brothels to meet surging demand during the Games. But last week the government backed down after vociferous protests from the Greek Orthodox Church and a number of other groups - and with recent opinion polls showing a slump in its popularity. Some other pre-Olympic headaches remain...
...helicopter was one of five used by senior state officials and foreign dignitaries. Will They or Won't They? CYPRUS Election fever mounted in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in advance of Sunday's parliamentary polls - which many believe are the last, best hope for reunification with the Greek-Cypriot south after 29 years of separation. Leader Rauf Denktash faced a strong challenge from opposition chief Mehmet Ali Talat, whose Republican Turkish Party has vowed to bring Northern Cyprus into the E.U. along with the south in May of next year. Denktash has agreed to step down as chief...
...pomegranate has a noble history. Along with the citrus and the peach, it's one of the three blessed fruits in Buddhism. Some have suggested that it was a pomegranate, not an apple, that led to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. And in Greek mythology, Persephone was sentenced to six months a year in the underworld for eating just six pomegranate seeds...