Word: greeks
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...last few years, the schemes, plans and recommendations have grown. The Greek scene is on the rise, and some have pointed to the new crop of fraternities and sororities as keys to reviving social life. Several websites virtually network students with hopes of connecting them in real life as much as online. Parties held at downtown clubs offer opportunities to outsource socialites into Boston. And this year, the UC offered money as an incentive for students to throw parties...
Even those lucky enough to have perfect vision for their first 40 years will almost inevitably develop presbyopia (from the Greek for "aging eye"), a loss of elasticity in the lens that makes it difficult to focus on close objects, like a magazine. But it may be possible to avoid reading glasses now that the FDA has approved ViewPoint CK (conductive keratoplasty) as a treatment...
...Haiti's Monsters In "A Battle of Cannibals and Monsters," on the insurrection in Haiti [Feb. 23], you noted that the pro-government Clean Sweep militiamen are called chim?res, which is Creole for mythical monsters. In Greek mythology, the Chimera are fire-breathing monsters. Metaphorically, the word is used today to mean a fancy or unrealizable dream. Apparently, this is a very appropriate word to describe deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's thugs, both in being monsters and in pursuing the unrealizable dream of keeping him in power. Paris Vangelatos Casablanca
...functional, consisting of a wall and a doorway or two. The back wall, borrowed from the set of The Trojan Women, is covered with graffiti displaying the words “Romani eunt domus,” and “frogs” in Latin and phonetic Greek, as well as a flaming skull...
...incongruous hilarity the Friday, Saturday and Sunday productions of The Frogs featured cameo appearances by Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Lino Pertile as Dante, and Professor of Latin and Greek Richard F. Thomas as Virgil...