Word: greeks
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...Stelios. It's part of a strategy inspired by Richard Branson, founder of Virgin. The idea is to become a populist icon behind a brand that is expandable to any number of consumer businesses. Populism is good for business, though a little odd for the billionaire son of a Greek Cypriot shipping magnate who spends his weekends in Monaco. Stelios started in his dad's business of oil tankers but became famous with easyJet, a no-frills airline modeled on U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines. EasyJet now flies to 18 cities in Europe; its planes are more than 80% full, compared...
Holl's other signatures? One is a unique husbandry of space. Each building is not so much a discrete object as a complicated succession of vistas. He called his plan for the Helsinki museum "Chiasma," a Greek word for "intertwining." That describes how the museum's curving outer section enfolds a straighter-lined companion structure. It also refers to the complicated lines of sight and movement by which his intricate design reaches out to the surrounding streets. Moving among the museum's 25 galleries, visitors wind between the two portions and upward toward a concluding level of--what else?--sunlight...
Pynchon created epic modernism. He took the detail-saturated realism of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, removed it from the confining world of marriage problems and parental blame and everything else that has made novels so small, and used it as a lens for Greek-size tales...
...violence that erupted in June at the European Union confab in Sweden. Government officials nixed proposals to stage a floating summit in Genoa's harbor, but they have summoned American experts to train local police in "crowd control." Italy's government has already learned that about 3,000 Greek and Spanish anarchists and some 150,000 protesters will descend on the city. One thing police won't have to worry about: there are no Starbucks storefronts to destroy...
...employer. The fresher you are to the hunt--a week or 10 days off to get the resume tuned up--the better. When a potential employer asks, "What have you been doing since you left your job three months ago?" the expected answer is not "Sailing the Greek islands...