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Stick around. Maybe somebody will unearth a manuscript by Thucydides quoting a 5th Century B.C. speech given by Alcibiades: "I see an Athens at peace with her neighbors ... I see an Athens that has achieved detente with Sparta...
...most biting attacks were aimed at Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Reagan claimed that Kissinger has been quoted as saying that he "thinks of the U.S. as Athens and the Soviet Union as Sparta," and that " 'the day of the U.S. is past, and today is the day of the Soviet Union. My job is to negotiate the most acceptable second-best position available...
Soillis, who runs the Felix Shoe Repair Shop underneath Joe's Pizza, has been fixing shoes since the age of 11; he is now 59. Originally from Sparta, Greece, he has been living in this country for the past 13 years. He still speaks with a pronounced accent. Felix does not read English; scribbled notes written to himself lie about his shop, "bouriges kori bourtgaks...
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...Vermont Bicycle Touring in Bristol has devised 74 different rural bike trips lasting from a weekend to 16 days and suited to riders of all degrees of proficiency; nights are spent in small country inns. Wisconsin has two of the nation's finest rural bike trails: the Elroy-Sparta (30 miles long) and the Sugar River (23 miles), which are laid out on paved-over railbeds and are barred to cars and motorcycles; the grade never exceeds...