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Members of the Harvard Greek community closely watched this week's national elections in Greece, in which Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), regained his seat in a victory over Constantine Mitsotakis and the New Democracy Party...
...have to visit this wonderful little cafe I once went to in Harvard Square," she gushed. "It has wonderful croissants and tea. What was its name? I can't remember. I think it was run by a Greek man. But, oh, with the sunlight coming through the windows and the leaves falling outside...it's just a great place in the fall...
...little smart, science you know haha, I'm not one of those rumnum brothers uhruhuhruhuhruh I can lift 400 pounds, let you know my wide range of things you know, and uh the inscription written on Jesus's head when he died was written in three languages, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, it said here lies the king of the Jews, Jesus was on the cross six hours, three hours in the day, three hours at night...The three is also for the Civil Rights workers. There are so many threes. Some might say three stooges or three musketeers, but that...
...GREEK named Ibycus said a long time ago that "an argument needs no reason, nor a friendship." For me and my friends, friendship is argument. Friends have to argue. And friends that don't aren't really friends...
...delights of Armstrong's book is her exploration of some relatively unfamiliar pathways to God. She is much taken with a Muslim movement devoted to Falsafah (roughly, philosophy) that emerged in the 9th and 10th centuries. Its advocates, known as Faylasufs, believed that the God of Greek philosophy was identical to Islam's. "Instead of seeing God as a mystery," Armstrong writes, "the Faylasufs believed he was reason itself." But they also acknowledged the chaos and disorder of the universe and recognized that their quest for ultimate meaning was a difficult one. Indirectly, the Faylasufs influenced such medieval thinkers...