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...GREEK TRAGEDY...
...ULLMANN: I think so too, because Marianne in Scenes from a Marriage is a kind of sane and normal woman. And I think she still is: an ordinary, nice woman who sees and can be trusted on what she sees. She is like a Greek chorus...
Last December he finally got some answers. After taking a $199 DNA test offered by DNAPrint Genomics in Sarasota, Fla., Kennedy was told he was 45% Northern and Western European, 25% Middle Eastern, 25% Turkish-Greek and 5% South Asian. "I felt freed," he says. "Suddenly there was an explanation for a lot of the shame and embarrassment in the family." As an adult, Kennedy had learned that his mother's family belonged to a mixed-race group called Melungeons who lived in the Appalachians. While their exact ethnic origins are unclear, Melungeons were united by their dark complexion...
...also mastered Greek and Hebrew...
...ended late the night before; with a throbbing head, you stumble downstairs to look at the living room - and God, it's a mess. That's how Athenians feel. The Olympic flame was extinguished at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens 10 months ago, ending a carnival in the Greek capital that had lasted 16 days. Now there's just the hangover, and the bill to pay. At Agios Kosmas, the Olympic sailing center, you'd never know that anyone had had any fun at all. "Look at this place," a private security guard says, panning his hand across...