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...medallists might be regarded, in Mormon terms, as defiled and deficient. The bulked-up, souped-up Olympian may break world records, but is he or she fit to enter Mormon heaven, or even serve as a model for classical sculpture? In many cases, no. He's built like a Greek god, goes the old saying, reminding us that the spirit and the physique have long been seen as mirroring each other. That mirror is cracked now. Too many modern Olympians are built less like gods than monsters - or monster trucks. And a few of them behave like monsters, too. Superhuman...
CYPRUS Crossing the Divide The prospect of European Union membership galvanized two long-standing adversaries to agree to a timetable for resolving their differences. Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash said they would meet three times a week over the next few months in the hope of hammering out a power-sharing deal that could stitch back the divided parts of Cyprus. Both leaders agreed to keep meeting until June. Turkey has threatened to annex the north of the island if Cyprus joins the E.U. without agreement by both parties...
...quarter-century division of Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots has been the biggest thorn in a long, contentious Greek-Turkish relationship, but for the rest of the world it has become mostly a yawn. There has been little threat of war and, rightly or wrongly, 30,000 Turkish forces have remained on the island since the 1974 invasion to keep it that...
...petition was distributed with a cover letter written by six Faculty members; Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology; Richard Thomas, professor of Greek and Latin; Richard Moran, professor of philosophy; Bradley S. Epps, professor of Romance languages and literatures; Tom Jehn, preceptor in expository writing; and Timothy Patrick McCarthy ’90, lecturer in history and literature. They signed the letter “for the Faculty Committee for a Living Wage...
...grips with America and its people, gave the square a liberal, multicultural flavor, similar to that given to its neighboring squares by Harvard and MIT. Foreign cuisine establishments grew up, new languages filled the streets, and the square became more culturally oriented—from communist bookshops to the Greek-American Political Club, which still exists today...