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...exodus has begun. Over the summer, Atlanta Hawks forward and rising star Josh Childress became the first prominent NBA player to go overseas to play basketball. After Childress’ move to the Greek club basketball team Olympiacos, every other American pro-baller might be asking themselves the same question: Should I leave the NBA for more money? While some European teams do not have the financial backing, other better funded teams will surely try to bait American players with hefty contracts. In fact, some major NBA stars have already voiced interest in accepting the European offers...
...mirrored wall, the dancers were filming the club scene of a music video for the song “Predator,” a pop sensation by Peter C. Shields, Jr. ’09. For Shields, known as “Petros” in the Greek music world, this was his third music video and the second-ever to exclusively feature Harvard students. (He recruited the dancers, all friends, by e-mail.) The filming took place in the dance studio, which a friend of Shields was able to reserve for the filming. The studio was perfect, Shields said...
...That’s what I’m trying to do with every show I program.”As part of this plan, Paulus has begun to line up productions for her 2009-2010 inaugural year. One of these works will be an adaptation of the ancient Greek drama “Prometheus Bound.” Paulus is already collaborating with Serj Tankian, the lead singer for System of a Down, and Steven Sater, co-producer of “Spring Awakening,” on the music, which will take its lyrics from Sater?...
...Pirates have plagued seafarers for millennia. Homer and Cicero noted incidents involving ancient Greek and Roman mariners, and Western Europeans weathered Viking onslaughts during the Middle Ages. In the 16th and 17th centuries, monarchs frustrated by Spain's dominance of the Caribbean commissioned privateers to harass the Spanish fleet-helping to usher in piracy's golden age, when swashbuckling marauders like Edward (Blackbeard) Teach roamed the sun-splashed islands, plundering gold and silver...
...dynamic vitality of the human body and the expression of human emotion. The show, which runs through November 29, also includes his abstract paintings and sculptures that approach his love for life with softer contours, sweeping strokes, and, oftentimes, a more variegated palette. Portrayals of masculine heroes from Greek and Roman mythology dominate the exhibit, which is the first retrospective of Wein’s work since his death in 1991. Their bodies are clearly defined. Their hands, feet, chests—any limb capable of evoking power—are elongated and disproportionate to the rest of the body...