Word: greeks
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...telephone to us almost every day," a senior Time officer said several weeks before Davis made his move. "He's just unhappy that he's been left out. He can't stop kibitzing." All the while, however, Davis was preparing his attack under the code name Kronos, for a Greek god associated with time. Davis was advised by Robert Greenhill, vice chairman of the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, which is now Paramount's chief adviser in the bid. Paramount said last week that Donald Rumsfeld, a former Defense Secretary, has agreed to serve as trustee for tendered Time stock...
Khomeini was educated as a scholar in Qum, the holy city where he worked as a teacher, married and reared a family of six children. An excellent instructor, he was fascinated by the Greek philosophers, especially Plato, whose Republic provided the Ayatullah with a model for his own concept of the ideal state, in which the philosopher-king was replaced by the Islamic theologian...
...Harvard graduate with a major in French literature, Wylie drove a cab and communed with Andy Warhol before finding his calling as an agent. In 1980 he signed up author I.F. Stone after singing Homeric verse to him on the phone -- in Greek, of course. (Wylie later handled Stone's unlikely 1988 best seller, The Trial of Socrates.) Three years ago, Wylie persuaded British agents Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone to form a partnership. Wylie has brought Susan Sontag and other distinguished authors to the firm, yet many of the big names on his list are either one-shot autobiographers...
Alexiades, who is fluent in Greek and Spanish, has also served as a foreign language tutor for the last ten years...
...addition, Alexiades, whose ancestors were Greek, served for a year as Miss Greek Orthodox Youth Association (GOYA). She oversaw fundraising measures, cultural events and the GOYA Olympics...