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Also successful is the usage of the show’s ensemble as a sort of Greek chorus that comments on Sidney’s dark journey. As they caution and cajole Sidney, they encircle him in a perfect compliment to Bob Crowley’s brilliant set design. The ensemble becomes the living, breathing manifestation of the phantasmagoric city that is suspended in the background beneath an otherworldly...
Fayez's greatest pride was a comfortable three-story villa sporting a big veranda overlooking Gilo, located in Beit Jala near the Greek Orthodox church his family attends. He built the house, mostly with his own hands, during the four years that he and Jacqueline lived with his parents. Israeli forces shelled it last May. They claimed snipers had been using the roof. The Zeidans' 9-year-old daughter Mariana remembers the day: "We ran away from the house, and we saw it burning behind us when we reached safety." Nothing remained of their possessions. "All my hard work...
...problem is not limited to universities in big cities with lots of dance clubs or schools where Greek life sustains the campus culture. Heavy drinking has also surged at all-women colleges in the past decade, according to a study being published this week in the Journal of American College Health. The research, by Henry Wechsler of the Harvard School of Public Health, shows that between 1993 and 2001, all-women colleges saw a 125% increase in frequent binge drinking, defined as consuming four or more drinks in a row, three or more times in the past two weeks. Wechsler...
...drunkenness gets into trouble when you discover where the hard-drinking women can be found on most campuses--not in the women's center, as Mullah Omar might imagine, but in the sorority houses. A 1996 study that appeared in the student personnel administrators' Journal found that 80% of Greek women in colleges were binge drinkers, compared with 35% of non-Greek women. Now sororities are no longer training grounds for Stepford wives, but neither are they redoubts of militant feminism. Within them, bingeing seems to be more of a nihilistic escape than a rebellion of any kind...
When social historians study our culture centuries from now, they will no doubt take note of the few times every year when millions come together to do the same thing. The Super Bowl fits right into the evolution of Western culture, with roots in the Greek Olympics and the Roman gladiator games. But what will scholars of the future make of the Oscars, a spectacle of prima donnas, cinematographers, John Williams and a certain gladiator from New Zealand...