Word: greeks
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...This brings us to the breaking news: yesterday’s implication of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s involvement in an upscale Washington prostitution ring. Spitzer’s downfall is particularly “tragic” in the Greek sense of the word: His meteoric rise to power closely mirrored Sarkozy’s. Existentially pugnacious, detested and admired at once, Spitzer paid his dues as New York’s Attorney General, where he dazzled with his unflinching resolve to take on Wall Street corruption and white-collar crime. He won himself a fair...
...December 1 at the age of 86, was praised for his 12 years of service as a house master, his five-year term as chair of the Classics Department, and his central role in reviving Harvard University Press’s Classical Library, which publishes English translations of Greek and Latin texts. But Stewart’s record of humility and caring for those who ranked lower than him—what his daughter, Sarah B. Stewart, called “a deep love, respect, and interest in other creatures”—was most noted. Classics professor...
...Given the landscape of college athletics, the dodgy practices of other college athletic departments are ones Harvard would do well to avoid. In determining its institutional priorities, the Harvard community should view athletics in the way it views Greek life. In the case of fraternities and sororities, for instance, there is no problem that they exist at Harvard, but we wouldn’t want to make Greek life a central culture of the University...
...cinema's latest entry: Chicago 10, the animated political history of the Chicago Seven. "To me, that all changed with An Inconvenient Truth. It became an inspiration for all of us." Former AOL executive Ted Leonsis coined the term filmanthropy to describe his four-year-old production company, Agape (Greek for unselfish love). "It's difficult to rationalize independent movies as a business," says Leonsis, who financed Nanking, a 2007 documentary about the "rape of Nanking," and Kicking It, a film about the Homeless World Cup, which premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival. "Filmanthropy changes the metrics...
MODERN ROMANCEThis sparkling first novel, Beginner's Greek, starts with a couple who meet cute. Then James Collins (a former TIME editor) deftly keeps them apart in a most satisfying...