Thirty years on, Onassis still fascinates Greeks
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His rags to riches story is the stuff of legend, while his personal life could well be the script of an ancient Greek tragedy.
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Mebrahtom Keflezighi was in Athens once before. His father had sneaked out of their native Eritrea in the northeast corner of Africa five years earlier, working three jobs
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ATHENS -- Makis Yerassimakis, a Greek Gypsy who has spent a lifetime on society's margins, thought he could join the rest of Greece and cash in on the Olympics. So last Friday, he took about $600 worth of Greek flag trinkets to sell outside the opening ceremony.
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The man behind the opening ceremony for the Athens Games is reluctant to call his work a success, despite worldwide acclaim for his evocative tableau of 3,000 years of Greek history and culture.
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In 360 B.C. the Greek philosopher Plato described an island he called Atlantis. Now contradicting new evidence claims the fabled city-state was based on a real place.
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A member of the Chinese Olympic Committee came to Athens last May. He visited our Olympic sites, which were still under construction, and met members of the Greek Olympic Committee.
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Zeno of Elea famously postulated his many paradoxes in defence of Parmenides' worldview: that all is "oneness," and pluralism is merely an illusion.    Of his forty paradoxes, the four most enduring have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and regular pundits for millennia.    As one of the many pundits ensnared by Zeno's challenges, I will present my own analysis of arguably his most famous paradox of all: The race between Achilles and the tortoise.
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LIKE a rank outsider, Athens has surprised the pundits by hosting an Olympic Games that has run with the mathematical precision mastered by the ancient Greeks.
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The man behind the Athens Olympics' opening ceremony is reluctant to call his work a success, despite worldwide acclaim for his evocative tableau of 3,000 years of Greek history and culture.
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Molissa Fenleyâs company is celebrating 30 years of existence with two programs this week at the Joyce Theater.
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The subject of Barry Bonds never gets old to some people.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Wherever they can, the Greeks seek to incorporate some customs and traditions of the original Olympics.
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For more than two thousand years the search for the real Alexander the Great has continued, with each generation seizing on some facet of his complex, contradictory character.
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ITâS not often you get to say that you were there when a star was born. But anyone gathered in the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall last night will forever be able to make that boast.
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The Sufi mystic's message of love still reverberates on the 800th anniversary of his birth.
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In 2000, Greece brought home 13 medals. The Greek Olympic Committee hopes to double that number.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The world record was like graffiti on a masterpiece, a reminder of a sport&#39;s dark past.