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Corelli, adapted by Shawn Slovo from Louis de Bernieres' novel, casts Cage as an Italian soldier occupying the Greek island of Cephalonia in the early days of World War II. Since the Italians, as Corelli says, are lovers and not fighters (don't tell Tony Soprano), he and his men spend their time singing Verdi, dancing in the square and making the ladies happy. Apparently only the Nazis took war seriously back then; when Germany takes over the island, atrocity is only a plot twist away...
...months and find ourselves in a weird new world. Do the educated and successful and privileged classes of the information-saturated post-industrial West now consider the reading of books to be something optional and quaint, like candles at dinner - a throwback, arduous and unnecessary, like knowing Latin and Greek (once indispensable among the educated...
...have been at least nine proposals for large-scale water diversions from Canada and Alaska, including a $100 billion megaproject to pipe water from James Bay in northern Quebec to the Western U.S. and a bizarre scheme for tugboats to tow icebergs to Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world--a method Aquarius uses to haul water around the Aegean...
...even sued to enjoin the publication of a book, Death of a President, that she had commissioned but deemed too candid. Publicly she kept herself at a regal remove, seldom granting interviews. So deep was the affection of her countrymen that it survived her marriage to a shady Greek billionaire and flourished again after his death...
...leading Israeli and Palestinians, including former Israeli cabinet minster Yossi Beilin and Palestinian Information Minister Abed Rabbo, signed a joint declaration calling for the resumption of peace talks. GREECE A Myth Finds Substance in the Hills The search for the Golden Fleece is one of the most evocative of Greek myths. Now archaeologists believe it may be more than just a legend. In the foothills of Mount Pelion, 170 km northwest of Athens, excavations have revealed remains of a Mycenean palace and city, a trading center for the mythical Jason and the Argonauts, who could have been gold traders sailing...