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...that has served as the spiritual center of the place for more than 2500 years. Now a church, it frowns down on the piazza from behind a weighty Baroque facade, but on its flanks, embedded in the unadorned side walls, one can still see the scarred columns of the Greek temple it once was. The spaces between them are blocked up with the masonry of centuries now, and the interior of the building; which in pre-Christian times opened up freely on the disorderly life of the city, has been made dark, private and inaccessible...
Gregory Nagy, who is Jones professor of classical Greek literature and professor of comparative literature, and who will step down at the end of the year after five years as house master, said that he and his wife are not involved in the search. "I sense that the way the community is handling it is very grass-roots," he said...
...Sanders Theatre, Maruca said. Although most of the tables will be geared towards the new semester's activities, one will be devoted to the term just past. Students will be able to pick up graded exams for Literature and Arts C-14: "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," Maruca said...
...decades, large Greek- and Armenian-American lobbies in the U.S. have frequently let grievances against the Turks going back to the days of the Ottomans get in the way of sound policy, common sense and simple fairness. Congress has insisted on apportioning military aid to Greece and Turkey by a rigid and arbitrary formula that links the two, even though geography has assigned Turkey a far more active and vital mission on the front line of international peacekeeping...
...years the Greeks resisted American efforts to extradite the accused bomber. Rashid's wife, still living in Khartoum, was even permitted to visit him in jail at least twice using a Greek passport and a fake name, although she too was under U.S. indictment. Nor does the story end with the decision last September by Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis to prosecute Rashid as part of his tougher line on terrorism. Two months ago, Rashid discovered the identity of the key witness against him. Since then, U.S. officials have learned, the supposedly retired Abu Ibrahim has dropped in on Awad...