Word: greeks
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Drumthwacket, the New Jersey governor's residence, is a genteel, Greek revival masterpiece. The 11,000 square foot spread harkens back to a gentler, calmer time when it was built in 1835. But when Gov. James McGreevey asked the state's Democratic Senators, Robert Torricelli and John Corzine, to the stately manor last Sunday night it wasn't for high tea. It was political...
...that audiences don't want them. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the independent movie rejected by major distributors, is on its way to making $140 million, in part because the studios offered no other comedies for older females this past summer. Why not? Because Julia Roberts--who has pretty much cornered the summer romantic-comedy market with hits like Notting Hill and My Best Friend's Wedding--has been on a break from the genre. In general, studios have lost faith in mid-priced films, focusing instead on cheaper movies that turn quick profits (like last summer's Crocodile Hunter...
...most Christian place on earth, and the gray rock mass of Golgotha (or Calgary) inside, the most Christian place in the church. Traditions dating back to the 300s A.D. record that Jesus was crucified here. Just above the rock's Plexiglas-protected expanse is a chapel shared by the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. The Catholic side boasts three mosaics. In the center is Mary Magdalene; to the left is Christ, removed from the Cross; and to the right is none other than ... Abraham, about to slay Isaac. Notes Feiler: "The image of Jesus sprawled on the unction stone...
...from an indication of grace, circumcision marked Jews "so that your landmight become desolate, and your cities burned," something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Bereft of a divine warrant for their well-being, Jews were at the mercy of their neighbors' worst instincts. In a remarkably frank assessment, the Greek Orthodox bishop of Jerusalem tells Feiler, "What the church did with Abraham was bitter and cruel...
...Professor of Latin and Greek Richard F. Thomas to imply that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s criticism of Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson is akin to a McCarthy-era witch hunt is both inaccurate and insulting (Letters, “Dershowitz Devises One-Sided Debate,” Sept. 27). Thomas ignores a key distinction: Dershowitz has proposed a debate between tenured equals in an academic forum, whereas the McCarthy investigations were inherently unequal and backed up by the coercive power...