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...spring of 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk washed up in Salonika bay, his hands and feet bound with rope, a bullet hole in the back of his head. The Greek pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the 34-year- old journalist found 3 lbs. of undigested lobster in his stomach...
...make the city site of the '96 Games. Athens was long considered the favorite by virtue of its claim that the 100th anniversary edition of the modern Games should take place in the nation where the Olympics were born. But most I.O.C. members succumbed to their misgivings about the Greek capital's pollution and potential safety problems. Atlanta promised smoother sailing, to say nothing of the likelihood of the kind of neat profit from commercial sponsorship perfected at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Complained Melina Mercouri, actress and former Greek Minister of Culture: "Coca-Cola won over the Parthenon...
LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST. Greek director Theo Angelopoulos makes majestic visions out of spare images. In this metaphysical road movie, two children hike across Greece to find their absent father. A poignant but never sentimental view of childhood from a master of minimalism...
...known as Cudjoe, is a mask for the 49-year-old author. Fiction and fact are freely blended; the style is a mix of directness and allusion reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Cudjoe, in fact, is invisible to himself. He has been an expatriate, living on a Greek island where he tended bar by day and tried to write at night...
While Nelson said that drinking regulations forsororities and fraternities have yet to bedecided, Cornell University plans restrictions onthe use of Greek funds for alcohol...