Word: greeks
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Katerina Linos ’00, a Greek resident tutor and former president of the Woodbridge Society , an organization of Harvard international students, said that this sort of national tracking system would “probably not be worth the negative feelings you would inspire among the vast majority of international students...
Enter Morpheus, named for both the Greek god of change and Laurence Fishburne's rebellious guru in the blockbuster sci-fi film The Matrix. Launched in April by MusicCity.com Morpheus had attracted 10 million devout followers by the end of August. New believers were arriving at the rate of 1 million a week. According to CNet's Download.com it was by far the hottest piece of free software...
...BOOK The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton. "What a few Greeks wrote and said 2,500 years ago still lives. Astounding...
Corelli, adapted by Shawn Slovo from Louis de Bernieres' novel, casts Cage as an Italian soldier occupying the Greek island of Cephalonia in the early days of World War II. Since the Italians, as Corelli says, are lovers and not fighters (don't tell Tony Soprano), he and his men spend their time singing Verdi, dancing in the square and making the ladies happy. Apparently only the Nazis took war seriously back then; when Germany takes over the island, atrocity is only a plot twist away...
...months and find ourselves in a weird new world. Do the educated and successful and privileged classes of the information-saturated post-industrial West now consider the reading of books to be something optional and quaint, like candles at dinner - a throwback, arduous and unnecessary, like knowing Latin and Greek (once indispensable among the educated...