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London School of Economics historian David Starkey calls the Waleses' marriage "one of the best-documented human relationships since the Greek myths." It's now clear that the union had little chance of enduring. Charles took Mountbatten's advice to play around for a while and then settle down with a simple, virginal girl. Says Starkey: "That's advice that might have been quite sensible in 1906, but somewhat foolish...
...There is a strong suspicion these pigeons are ending up in pies rather than in races. They are probably being sold to Greek restaurants...
With the help of a flying contraption invented by Trichinosis (Josh Derman '97), and a philosophy minor Doris Levine (Stephanie Smith '98), Hepatitis decides on an ending and the play is performed. Hepatitis' play, complete with a Greek chorus similar to that in Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite," echoes the philosophical style as the actual play. This time, though, the debate is on the pros and cons of freedom: should a slave give up being taken care of for the "dangerous" freedom, and the responsibility of, one's actions...
Recently, Cambridge University Press (CUP) refused to publish a book about ethnic identity in the Greek province of Macedonia, written by former Harvard visiting scholar Anastasia Karakasidou. CUP executives claimed that the publication of her book, Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood, might have sparked violent retaliation by Greek nationalists against CUP employees in Greece. In her book, Karakasidou states that Macedonians may consider themselves Slavo-Macedonian rather than Greek, and this assertion could challenge Greek authority in the region...
Herzfeld disputes CUP's fears of violent reprisals, claiming that CUP did not make a realistic assessment of the potential danger to their Greek employees. He attributes their fears to racist stereotypes of Greeks as "violent and uncontrollable." Karakasidou, who received police protection while at Harvard, says the issue is not nearly as volatile as it was two years ago. And Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies Margaret B. Alexiou also concurs that the publication of the book would not seriously endanger CUP's employees in Greece...