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...physics classes that I told her I was taking: I have no clue what's going on in them! And I certainly can't tell her the truth. She'd freak if she knew I've been taking classes with titles like "Eddic Mythology" and "Ritual and Metaphor in Greek Songs of the Life Cycle." She's wanted me to be a doctor forever, Norma. She sent me to pre-med camp when I was in second grade! What am I going to do? Crazed in Cabot...
...events match the drama and romance of a major archaeological discovery. It's no wonder, then, that the world was buzzing last week when a team of Greek archaeologists working in Egypt said they had found the tomb of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King who died...
What archaeologist Leana Souvaltze, who led the Greek team, actually found are three stone tablets bearing inscriptions that purportedly relate to Alexander's death, along with the remains of two large stone chambers. The artifacts come from a site in Egypt's Western Desert, near the oasis of Siwa-- the place where, as legend has it, Alexander received a favorable reading from an oracle. Near the end of his life, goes the story, he said he wanted to be buried at Siwa...
None of this means that Souvaltze's claims are impossible--just that they're much too shaky to be taken seriously at this point. A second delegation of Greek archaeologists has already undertaken a visit to the site to make its own evaluation, and Souvaltze is planning to redouble her efforts to find the body. Digging has been interrupted by Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, which ends in three weeks. In the meantime, scholars and Alexander groupies alike will just have to wait...
...finished stomaching that sentiment as sincere, consider his argument: Harvard is a men's institution, he asserts, and women should leave. Radcliffe should be operated separately from Harvard, for women exclusively. McGuire's expressed opinions concern only men, defending men's education, and preserving masculinity as some stylized Greek idea. He never considers women or women's education, itself. Women are incidental to McGuire's master plan, where men wear the togas in the house...