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...first Olympics ever. There’s a demigod named Hugh Bris who has to win an athletic competition in order to become a full God. Hilarity ensues, conflict begins, and soul-mates are found. I play this character Brometheus, a frat guy who’s really into Greek life...That’s the big joke. I’m constantly inviting Gods to give me a fist bump. It’s fun.THC: Very manly! And what was it like playing a woman last year?WBP: That was a huge trip. I had huge hips, huge boobs...
...their similarities, the two women are not personally close and hail from very different backgrounds. Snowe, who turns 62 later this month, was orphaned at the age of 9 when her father, a Greek immigrant cook, died of a heart attack a year after her mother died of cancer. Another tragedy brought her to elective office in 1973, when she filled the seat in Maine's house of representatives that was left vacant by the death of her husband in a car accident. Her second husband, John McKernan, was a colleague of hers in both the legislature and U.S. House...
...course offerings already fall short in many areas, and the hiring slowdown means departments across the College must wait further to fill their teaching gaps. The Economics Department is now searching for only one junior faculty member instead of two, the Classics Department cannot fill an intellectual vacancy in Greek history, and the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department will not be hiring a pre-modern Japanese history professor...
...Before writing off Walker as just another member of a growing Greek chorus of dispirited prognosticators, consider that he has a history of detecting worst-case scenarios before they came to pass. Back in 1995, Walker, then an economist at brokerage house CLSA, penned a report entitled It's Life, Jim, but Not as We Know It: Asia Decoupling, in which he and his team of economists warned that Asian currency regimes, if not reformed, could be susceptible to Mexico-style meltdowns in two to three years. Two years later, the region plunged into the 1997 Asian crisis, which...
...thousand further examples could be plucked from the annals of history. Nature writing has a long and rich history, extending from the Greek poets; to Wordsworth, Thoreau, and Muir in the 19th century; to the 1970s renaissance of nature-based works like Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” Embedded in all this lyricism is an environmental ethics—descriptions of breathtaking beauty move us to realize why nature should not be destroyed and encourage us to industrialize responsibly...