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...told the court Cantat was a "murderer" and that she did not believe his expressions of regret. The judges will hear a final statement from Cantat this week. Special Report: Till Death Do Us Part Delicate Moment CYPRUS Last-ditch talks aimed at reunifying the divided island before the Greek Cypriot south accedes to the E.U. on May 1 are set to go ahead in Switzerland this week despite Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash's announcement that he will not participate. Denktash, who is opposed to the U.N. plan on which the discussions are based, said he did not believe...
They are quick to add disclaimers like “We’re not here to pass judgment,” as Kalamchi says of DU. But the Greek consensus seems to be clear: they want to be different...
Since the Greek rush season began about a month ago, several dozen freshmen have rushed each of the fraternities, and a select number have been offered bids to join after attending a string of events like the DU excursion into Boston...
...some ways that event itself embodies what brothers say is the fraternity difference: while final club punch events often include female dates, the Greek rush events are mainly male...
...seems to be in the nature of genius to zero in on its purpose. In the 1790s a young French boy named Jean-Francois Champollion, the son of a bookseller, became obsessed with ancient languages--not only Latin and Greek but also Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Chaldean. According to The Linguist and the Emperor (Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone...