Word: helene
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...With reporting by Dean Fischer/Washington and Helen Gibson/London
...time he was a child growing up in Ankershagen, Germany, in the early part of the 19th century, Heinrich Schliemann knew his destiny. He vowed that when he was a man, he'd prove that the people, places and events that had entranced him in Homer's Iliad--Helen and Agamemnon, the siege of Troy and the magnificent city itself--were more than just legends. Or so he later wrote. Like many of Schliemann's tales, this one may have been a trifle exaggerated. "In general, scholars accept the fact that Schliemann told a great many lies," says David Traill...
...called a royal palace some objects that were almost certainly discovered separately and outside the nearby city wall. Why did he twist the facts? Probably, says Traill, because his obsession with verifying the Iliad--quite real, even if it didn't date from childhood--demanded proof that King Priam, Helen's father-in-law, existed. What better proof than a royal treasure...
...ideas are now spread by groups under a variety of names--Freemen, We the People, People for Constitutional Courts, even the Civil Rights Task Force--sometimes with a strong dose of white separatism, anti-Semitism and the usual paranoia about a worldwide conspiracy of bankers. In January Lutheran pastor Helen Young met with Freemen leaders at the Clark farm. "It was hard for me to dialogue with them," she says. "It became a matter of them looking at the Scriptures through a certain lens that doesn't really proclaim God's love, but proclaims hate...
...Helen's husband, Mason Fernald '40, who was an Eliot resident, says the layout of the dorms "had a segregating effect...