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...Jews and other non-Christians want to join the holiday bartering, we should get with the program and start exchanging Christmas presents. Hannukah itself is a nice little holiday, commemorating the victory of the Maccabees over Greek aggressors a long time ago. But in the Jewish calendar, it's very much a minor event. It's not even mentioned in the Bible. And the specter of celebrating the holiday by swapping presents might prompt Hillel himself to spin in his grave...
...wildly misnomered unit that reacted to Bush's assaults by dreaming up counterattacks that the candidate then rarely delivered. His main job, Stephanopoulos jokes, was to serve as a sounding board for one-liners to see if they would get a laugh. "I was just another short, over-smart Greek without a sense of humor...
Stephanopoulos developed his selflessness as the grandson and son of Greek Orthodox priests, expected to be above reproach -- a child impersonating a grown-up. "A lot of priest's kids go bad, go wild, can't stand the strain of the scrutiny of the flock looking at them," says Begala. "George clearly was up to it." His too-good-to-be-true face looks out from a gallery of photos lining the wall of his parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean...
Stern spends nearly five hours on the air each day, gabbing with Quivers, his giggling Greek chorus (who is black and female), and an array of in-studio regulars. Celebrities occasionally join him, in person or on the phone, among them regulars like Jessica Hahn. But the show is virtually all Stern and is always pushing the edge. Stern's conversation is every pubescent male's sex fantasy given voice; a one-man obscene gesture to the politically correct and socially discreet; the national id run wild. It is all an act, but a very savvy one: Stern's over...
...central visual image of this season's most eagerly awaited American play is a towering wall, like the facade of some Greek Revival government colossus, with two jagged cracks running from top to bottom. Before a word is spoken, this symbol -- with its promise of that facade's eventually cracking wide open -- conveys the aura of physical decay and revolutionary social change that drives Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hr. epic about AIDS, gay liberation and the breakdown of the Reagan era's sanctimonious hypocrisy...