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Across from a small, grassy park dedicated to Greek and Irish immigrants, Joe Cogliano, whose grandparents were Italian, sells mangoes to Hispanic customers from the back of his truck. Children play tag while chattering in Spanish on O'Brien Terrace, part of a housing project built in 1939 for Irish laborers. The pungent odor of Vietnamese fish sauce fills a Southeast Asian restaurant where Giavis' Greek grocery once thrived for more than 70 years...
...police. Two men arrested at the scene turned out to be U.S. diplomats, and the contents of the van included a wig, a 9-mm Browning pistol and radio transmitters. The snoopers were arrested, questioned and, thanks to their diplomatic immunity, whisked out of the country 24 hours later. Greek journalists speculated that the diplomats were investigating activities of the Nov. 17 terrorist organization, which claims to have killed 10 victims of various nationalities, including diplomats and a U.S. serviceman, since 1975. Local architect Dmitris Papadopoulos was unsurprised by the discovery: "It is an agreement between the Greeks...
Auden's choice of figures from Greek mythology was intentional and appropriate. Perhaps Homer and Sophocles and the rest will prove, when all is said and done, better guides to the human condition than Freud. But he did not shy away from such competition...
...could go to prison for 20 years if she is found guilty of what the lawyers call "malicious wounding." Then there is John Wayne Bobbitt, who, although acquitted of marital sexual assault last week, may never, as they say, be whole again. Despite the bloodletting, the Bobbitts are less Greek tragedy than downmarket War of the Roses. The onetime bouncer and the struggling beautician had been trapped with each other under the same roof and over the same barrel -- until last June...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy made the most pessimistic prediction--only a six point Harvard win. And why will Harvard...