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Under the present system, all seniors are tested on their sub-field of concentration, and are asked general questions about the other branches of anthropology...
...that such material benefits are not enough. They want the same kind of freedom from government interference enjoyed by their European counterparts. Thus, students at Athens' elite Polytechnic Institute boycotted classes last month after the government announced that it planned to upgrade the status of the so-called "sub-engineers." These, in effect, are second-class students who follow a simpler curriculum than do regular engineers and are subject to certain professional limitations after they graduate. (For example, they can build a house no taller than two stories...
This fairly parochial protest might have died down in a few days, but a government official (no one is certain who) sent squads of policemen to the campus to break up a meeting on the sub-engineer problem. Outraged by this "violation" of the university, students began taunting the cops with cries of "Fascists!" and "Gestapo!" For good measure, some also threw in two peculiarly Greek insults: pustis, meaning the passive partner in a homosexual relationship, and malakas (masturbator...
Forgotten for much of the postwar era, Europe's sub-and transnational minorities have been making increasingly noisy claims for recognition and redress. Almost overnight, it seems, many if not most of Europe's central governments face what British Author Anthony Sampson describes in The New Europeans as a "long, untidy" period of internal struggles in "many different forms, from regionalism to anarchism to sheer eccentricity...
...free where he will probably battle Navy's Rex Hand for individual honors. Neville is undefeated in the event this season and only hundredths of a second separate his second-ranked time from that of front-runner Hand. The dual could produce a very fast sub 21.0 clocking...