Word: smythe
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...once a week. But the country's relationship with the church began to change dramatically in the mid-1990s. When Ireland's economy took off, disaffection replaced devotion among young people. The priest sex-abuse scandals didn't help. Criticism over the handling of the case of Father Brendan Smyth - a priest who sexually abused children for more than 40 years - even led to the collapse of the Irish government in 1994, when Prime Minister Albert Reynolds delayed extraditing Smyth to Northern Ireland to face child-abuse charges. (Read "For Ireland's Catholic Schools, a Catalog of Horrors...
...Herbert Weir Smyth Classical Library
...Classics Department's library, tucked away on the third floor of Widener Library, requires more exclusive access than the History Department's. You need to either be a Classics concentrator or taking a Classics course that requires access to Smyth for the readings (the best reason to take an ancient history seminar or Classics department course). Or, if you are planning to do a secondary field and a foreign-language citation and just don't have the room in your schedule, you can try to pretend to be a concentrator when asking the department administrator for swipe access...
...Smyth is a gorgeous place to study--surrounded by classical literary criticism, small statues, and the portraits of old white men. Okay, the last are sort of intimidating. Graduate students whip out their dusted hardcovers with the Greek original--and only the Greek original--of Homer, Herodotus, and Plato. The Loeb editions--with Greek on one side and English on the other--are too childish for them. Don't plan on looking at Facebook photos in this library...
...missing opium could be making its way to these growing markets, which may not yet be showing up on U.N. drug-consumption figures. "Some of the missing opium might also be lost during smuggling or processing, or be stashed everywhere from Kandahar to Turkey - even Western Europe," says Paul Smyth, head of the Operational Studies Program of the Royal United Services Institute in London. Still, few law-enforcement and drug officials believe these factors would explain all the missing opium, leaving the Taliban's intentions for its stockpiles a mystery...