Word: greeks
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...test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered her silent prayer. The 9,000-ton roof segment moved - just. The closing, fittingly, was excruciatingly slow, the huge steel arch moving...
...Agamemnon (Brian Cox), a greedy Greek with an addiction to regime change, and Priam of Troy (Peter O'Toole), whom melancholy has made too wise. Priam's younger son Paris (Orlando Bloom) has run off with Helen (Diane Kruger), legendarily gorgeous young wife of Agamemnon's brother Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson). Agamemnon and Odysseus of Ithaca (Sean Bean) lead a siege of Troy, and the kingdoms' best warriors--Achilles and Hector (Eric Bana)--are fated to fight...
...Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert at the Athens-based Greek National Defense College, estimates at least 270 leftist or anarchist cells operate in and around the city. Most incidents are designed to send a message, however obscure, not to kill. That's cold comfort, however, to the other 201 countries sending teams to the Athens Olympics. The timing of last...
...Unlike the terrorists in New York, Istanbul and Madrid, Karmon and others say, the Greek anarchists are seeking to test the establishment, not kill large numbers of people. The most likely suspect in Wednesday's attack is a group called the Revolutionary Struggle, which was behind a similar strike outside a courthouse last year. Greek terrorism experts believe the bombs were less a warning of things to come than a political provocation aimed at embarrassing the government. They succeeded. There were plenty of red faces among the Greek delegation that arrived in Washington later that day to brief...
...naval vessels cruised through the territory's harbor to mark the navy's 55th anniversary. Some saw this display of military muscle as an appeal to local patriotism, others as a not-so-subtle reminder of Beijing's ultimate sovereignty over Hong Kong. MEANWHILE IN IRELAND... It's All Greek to Them The Irish postal service rejected suggestions that it had confused Cyprus with Crete on a stamp issued to mark the May 1 expansion of the European Union. Ireland - current holder of the rotating E.U. presidency - issued the stamp in the form of a map showing the organization...