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Last week, when the Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy won the prestigious (well, if you’re a Classics concentrator, at least) Onassis International Prize, he also received the added perk of $200,000 prize money. Too bad he doesn’t actually get to spend it. But for the popular professor of Literature and Arts C-14, “Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization,” whose proclaimed interests are archaic Greek literature and oral poetics, the award and recognition in Greece were enough. Plus...
...Gogh's windmills, a group of white-gloved, green-uniformed installation specialists have gathered round the much earthier canvas of Judy Watson's Aboriginal Shield, which has come all the way from Wollongong. Around the corner, Ken Thaiday Senior's tiger-shark headdress occupies a cabinet where early Greek and Egyptian antiquities are normally housed. But this day the biggest impression comes when Patricia Piccinini's mutant possum sculpture emerges-bearing impossibly lifelike wrinkles, hair and fangs-from its packing box. "With this work, we are now starting a new history," says exhibition coordinator Tomoko Nakayama...
...clock a world record-tying time of 12.91 sec., the panic in sports announcers' voices was palpable. Even though China had touted the 21-year-old Shanghai native as a medal hopeful, few in the West knew that China had a decent hurdler. Stunned by the victory, a Greek TV announcer stammered: "In first place, it's ? it's a Chinese man." Foiled by the X in Liu's given name, the broadcaster sidestepped the problem: "He is Mr. Liu. Congratulations to Mr. Liu from China." The world had better get used to Mr. Liu's name. With his chiseled...
...Greek mythology, Eos was thegoddess of dawn, a frisky immortal who liked to shack up with hunky gods and, on occasion, kidnap men for pleasure. Nowhere in Homer does it say anything about Eos and transportation. Yet in Volkswagen's retelling, Eos has morphed into an elegant two-door convertible. The new VW Eos features a retractable hard top that's a marvel of engineering, stowing in the rear at the flip of a switch and transforming a buttoned-up coupe into a sun-loving hellion. A car with features like that used to set you back at least...
...this fall, Harvard’s theater tech community is experiencing tumult worthy of a Greek drama, and how they meet the ensuing challenges of these transformations will have a lasting effect on theater at Harvard, both off stage...