Word: greekness
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...name implies a territorial claim on a province of northeastern Greece also called Macedonia. The two sides have now struck an acceptable, if somewhat ponderous, compromise: Macedonia will be admitted as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Its flag, which Greece considers an emblem of Skopje's claim to Greek Macedonia, will be barred from flying at U.N. sites...
...astrology as we know it, he says, came together when ancient Babylonian astrology, which focused on omens predicting the fates of nations, united with Greek scientific traditions...
Still, she said, "universities have been notorious in their classification of people in certain fields." She said that while some universities search for Black professors for African-American studies, classics departments do not seek out professors of Greek origin...
...monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland album. The nine singers become a sort of Greek chorus and attain the dimensions of classical tragedy...
Emma Thompson frets -- she knits her brow into a virtual sweater of remembered frustration -- as she recalls her years as an academic grind at Camden School for Girls in London. "The one thing I really regret," she says, "is not having read Homer in the original Greek...