Word: greeks
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...quarter-century division of Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots has been the biggest thorn in a long, contentious Greek-Turkish relationship, but for the rest of the world it has become mostly a yawn. There has been little threat of war and, rightly or wrongly, 30,000 Turkish forces have remained on the island since the 1974 invasion to keep it that...
...petition was distributed with a cover letter written by six Faculty members; Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology; Richard Thomas, professor of Greek and Latin; Richard Moran, professor of philosophy; Bradley S. Epps, professor of Romance languages and literatures; Tom Jehn, preceptor in expository writing; and Timothy Patrick McCarthy ’90, lecturer in history and literature. They signed the letter “for the Faculty Committee for a Living Wage...
...grips with America and its people, gave the square a liberal, multicultural flavor, similar to that given to its neighboring squares by Harvard and MIT. Foreign cuisine establishments grew up, new languages filled the streets, and the square became more culturally oriented—from communist bookshops to the Greek-American Political Club, which still exists today...
Born in Boston on March 19, 1936, Segal was raised in Dorchester and attended the Boston Latin School, where he received a thorough, traditional education in the Greek and Latin classics. In his day, many students from Boston Latin came to Harvard with anextensive classical background, although, like many of them, Segal wasn’t decided on the classics as his field of study. But his college years developed Segal’s interest in ancient literature...
...graduated from the College summa cum laude in Classics in 1957 having received a half-dozen prizes in Greek and Latin and having been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard four years later...