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...game, but that doesn't lead to anything. It's amazing how you see all of these so-called academics putting down multicultural courses, saying they want to stick to the Classics. Dartmouth has some of the best Classics professors in the country, but there are still all these Greek plays that have not been translated. If these guys were so interested in Greek culture, they'd want to translate some of those plays instead of writing Op-Eds all the time, sitting on their lazy behinds writing the same Op-Ed over and over again to the Wall Street...
...Brussels' bureaucrats have not dared tell the British to drive on the right. Nor have the Twelve been able to agree on uniform electric plugs or phone jacks. In theory, professional barriers have dropped, so a Greek dentist can practice in Aberdeen, Scotland and an Italian lawyer can hang up his shingle in Hamburg, Germany. In actuality, the rules governing professional practice in each country remain decisive. On Jan. 1, internal passport controls were to vanish, but Britain, Ireland and Denmark balked. In the other nine countries, airport controls for internal E.C. passengers will disappear next year, after arrival gates...
...people Americans have put in the White House. Every U.S. President except for the all-Dutch Martin Van Buren has descended in whole or part from the three largest white demographic groups. In the 1980s the Democrats tried to vary the mix by fielding Norwegian-Italian and Greek- Danish tickets. Last year they reverted to form and managed to replace George Herbert Walker Bush with William Jefferson Clinton...
Polish and Greek-Americans are not the only groups to sponsor social activities for members of their communities...
More than 50 older men gathered around brown, plastic-topped tables in the social hall of the club, playing cards, nursing drinks, smoking cigars and swapping stories in Greek...