Word: greeks
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...calendar. Hence our annual review of cultural events, recalled with fondness or contempt. Except for the film Kandahar and David Letterman's TV show, the items cited here do not relate directly to the attacks on the U.S. But they do speak to our need to look back: to Greek myths (reinvented off-Broadway), to John Adams (in a new biography), to '70s punk (rekindled by the Strokes). We also look up (at the winged victory of a Milwaukee museum) and, for therapeutic escape, look away (to the canny lunacy of Shrek, to Nike ads and the fierce melodrama...
Boston research metallurgist Kim Bigelow is no Aristotle Onassis, but he has one thing in common with the late Greek tycoon: he owns a private island. Two of them, actually: 16-acre Green Cay and 1-acre Sandy Spit, both surrounded by azure water and coral reefs, about 10 miles east of St. Thomas in the British Virgin Islands. Bigelow, 60, inherited the properties and has decided to sell them for $1.7 million. The only time he and his wife reconsidered, he says, was in the days after Sept. 11, when owning a private escape from the madness seemed more...
...letter—signed by Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas and nine other Faculty members—states that Summers’ office has postponed two meetings scheduled with the Faculty members to discuss wage issues...
Professor of Greek and Latin and chair of the Classics department Richard F. Thomas raised an objection to the language of the amendment, pointing out that it does not make A-range grades across all areas of study a requirement...
...retrospect, the Greek theme to her first photo at Harvard is fitting. A Leverett house senior who hails from Normal, Ill., Sarah is a math concentrator. She sees Greek letters all the time in her mathematical studies, and spent last summer learning Ancient Greek at Harvard Summer School. When first learning Greek, “knowing math gives you a slight edge,” she says, “because you already know how to write...