Word: greeks
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...could be a Romanov in the Russian Revolution, a Vietnamese child during the war, a woman in today’s Afghanistan. But though this is a tale of modern-day international politics, her dialogue was crafted millennia ago by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides...
...undergraduates at Amherst, nearly 100 are members of the College Republicans, the foremost conservative group on campus. There is currently only one registered Republican on this year’s faculty (and she teaches Greek). Conservatives on campus are harassed, are hesitant to present their views in class for fear of reprisal from their professors and classmates and have even been victims of physical violence because of their orientation. If the preceding sentence had begun with “African-Americans” instead of “conservatives” there undoubtedly would be stirrings of national outrage. However...
...romantic comedy with indie-film credibility and big-studio profits? The stars of My Big Fat Greek Wedding are having their cake and eating it too. Vardalos, Corbett and producers Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson made the film for $5 million and change, then watched it become the biggest indie hit in U.S. history, pulling in more than $215 million at the box office. Now that's a wedding present to love...
...even more dire need of reform of its sclerotic and often unfathomable decision-making processes. "This will from now on be a fundamentally different union," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "It has to be." One of the 10 new members is Cyprus, which has been split between Greeks and Turks for a generation. The U.N. pushed a plan to end the island's 28-year division in November, hoping that the prospect of E.U. membership would jumpstart negotiations to settle Europe's longest-running standoff. That trap never sprang. As promised, the E.U. will now admit the Greek part...
Pinter, who reads books in English, Croatian, German, Latin and Greek, won a prize last year for his 50-volume collection of Marxist philosophy. He says that his collection actually contains more than 100 volumes, but that he pared it down for the contest...