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...past the strangeness, you will see some remarkable things. Drop by Mr. Rush's senior art-history class some morning. Rush--a dapper, manic teacher who claims he understands absolutely nothing about wireless technology--leads his students through a brisk review before an exam, pulling images of Greek urns off the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. He makes extensive use of what's called a Smart Board, a high-tech blackboard that throws a giant version of Rush's laptop screen on the wall. It's touch-sensitive, so he can point and click on the board with...
...first attempt to establish a repertory theater at New York City's Lincoln Center and amaze himself, among others, by becoming a best-selling novelist (The Arrangement). A sense of worthlessness, Kazan says, is what drove him. It stemmed from his foreignness (he immigrated to the U.S. with his Greek parents when he was four); his lack of social status at Williams College, which he worked his way through as a fraternity-house waiter, and his lack of visible talent at the Yale Drama School ... [Director] Harold Clurman ... informed Kazan that his only gift was excessive energy. But that...
...It’s ‘sow-ow-na!”); another, of Uruguayan descent, explained the finer points of gender roles in Uruguay, as well as why she found bad Uruguay-related puns so unfunny; a third taught us Greek invectives. Neither was cultural identification a phenomenon limited to my room; at the activities fair held for first-years, representatives for organizations like the Hellenic Society gave out candy and encouraged students to sign up for e-mail lists. Though I looked, I did not find a table representing students of combined white-trash and Jewish descent...
...take notice of what I say, so I'll be more free to say nasty things." - By Simon Elegant Sick Ship Sails GREECE A British cruise ship carrying 430 passengers suffering from a highly contagious form of gastroenteritis sailed for Gibraltar after being refused permission to dock at the Greek port of Piraeus. Greek authorities did permit two British doctors carrying emergency medical supplies to board the Aurora, which was carrying a total of 1,900 passengers and more than 800 crew. The vessel was only days into a tour of the Mediterranean when the virus struck. Miner Threat RUSSIA...
...Greek government insists that it has security in hand for next summer's Olympic Games. But a confidential report by the U.S. State Department says otherwise. A team of biological- and chemical-terrorism experts visited Greece for 10 days in September, and concluded that authorities there have dangerously underestimated the threat of such attacks during the XXVIII Olympiad. Greek planning does not "cover the response capabilities and the reserve capabilities" for mass casualties from a biological or chemical assault, says the report, a copy of which was seen by TIME. The experts urge, among other things, avoiding drinking tap water...