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...considered signing up with a private teacher for another crack at lessons, but I know myself and my schedule well enough to imagine that teacher becoming my own personal Greek god of guilt. So I turn to that famous refuge of the half-assed hobbyist: the Learning Annex, New York City branch. I sign up for a three-hour, $39 course called "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People." It's taught by Martin Moser, a sprightly ragtime fanatic. The course requires only that students be able to read music in the treble clef and be able to point to those...
...TIME: You seem like a figure in a Greek tragedy, first a hero in your own land, then demonized and driven from country to country. How has this affected you? SALINAS: It's not a tragedy because the classics define tragedy as something inevitable. This was a political struggle going on for the modernization of Mexico...
...administration seems to share my confusion over teaching responsibilities. As a first-year I once navely asked my introductory Greek teacher if he was a graduate student, because his name differed from the instructor in the course listing. He was, but he only answered, "I'm in the department...
...been adjudicating these disputes. ICANN and WIPO have been slowly developing the competence and collecting the precedents necessary to create a truly global arbitration process worthy of the World Wide Web. If any organization should understand the importance of global cooperation it should be the IOC. But the ancient Greek proscription against engaging in warfare during the Olympic games apparently is lost on these modern defenders of something even more important than the Olympic ideal - the world's most lucrative brand...
Among the most sweeping of the changes is one requiring first-year students to live in university housing instead of Greek housing. The policy will take effect in 2002 when construction of new undergraduate housing is completed...