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greek crisis and u.s. elections

May 31, 2012, 02:32 PM

The last time that small Greece had affected the political situation in the United States was back during the Watergate scandal. It was then that the renowned Tom Pappas – who paid for Andreas Papand...

it's her attitude, not her words

May 31, 2012, 02:32 PM

If we were Christine Lagarde the managing director of the IMF, we would wish that we would have had the wisdom to avoid making comparisons between the hungry. Unfortunately, Ms. Lagarde told The Gua...

time to grant diaspora greeks right to vote in greek elections

May 31, 2012, 02:32 PM

As the historic crisis that is threatening to shake the very foundations of Greece is reaching a climax, the question that is being posed three years following its outbreak is what is the role that ...

a new book, the (honest) truth about dishonesty, explains why people lie

May 31, 2012, 02:28 PM

By Dan Ariely The Wall Street Journal Research shows that nearly everyone cheats a little if given the opportunity. Dan Ariely, author of the new book, "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty," expla...

defective joy gene study finds germans are incapable of enjoying life

May 31, 2012, 02:28 PM

By Maria Marquart www.spiegel.de With low unemployment and solid economic growth, things are going better than ever for Germans. But a new study shows they're practically incapable of enjoying ...

hellenic medical society celebrates achievements of dr. papanicolaou

May 31, 2012, 02:27 PM

NEW YORK – The Hellenic Medical Society of New York hosted its 2012 Dr. George N. Papanicolaou 2012 Award Symposium at the of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan. The annual event is first...

casper wy holy trinity church has turned 50

May 31, 2012, 02:27 PM

trib.com The weekend of June 1 to 3 will be a weekend full of activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1350 E. “C” St., Casper. This is the weekend that th...

angry church mob accosts tnh writer

May 31, 2012, 02:24 PM

MIAMI, FL – Angry Parish Council members waited outside St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral last Sunday to confront TNH reporter Theo Karantsalis about a recent story he co-wrote that showed the Chu...

a father remembers his son, dimitrios gavel, who fought in iraq war

Kathy McCabe - Boston Globe
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May 31, 2012, 02:26 PM

On Memorial Day, Chris Gavriel honors a fallen son who died in Iraq, and the service of a daughter who enlisted in the Marines to finish her brother’s mission. “I gave my kids freedom,” said Gavriel,...

a musical tribute to the legendary greek-jewish rebetika singers

Constantine S. Sirigos
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May 31, 2012, 02:27 PM

NEW YORK – They were remarkable women and artists. The title of the special concert at the Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum on Manhattan’s lower East Side on May 20 said it all: “The Jewish ...

demos exits run for seat in congress

Constantine S. Sirigos
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May 31, 2012, 02:26 PM

NEW YORK – Attorney George Demos announced his withdrawal on May 25 from the race to unseat Congressman Tim Bishop in New York's 1st district on Long Island. With demands on his time mounting due to h...

greek-american is the 2012 valedictorian at the usma–west point

Constantine S. Sirigos
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May 31, 2012, 02:24 PM

NEW YORK – The sun and clouds battled up above in the lower Hudson Valley, but Hellenic pride and family love carried the day at the commencement exercise for the graduates of the U.S. Military Academ...

agapw celebrates mothers of the greek diaspora at manhattan event

TNH staff
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May 31, 2012, 02:27 PM

NEW YORK – Thea Halo, author of the renowned book, Not Even My Name, based on the life of her mother, Sano Thimia Halo, a Pontian genocide survivor, was honored by the Association of Greek American Pr...

psomiades is honored at queens college

TNH staff
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May 31, 2012, 02:26 PM

NEW YORK – The annual Certificate of Achievement Awards Dinner of the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of Queens College is always a special event for the Greek-American community in New ...

admiral stavridis wins the eisenhower award

TNH staff
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May 31, 2012, 02:26 PM

Washington, DC – Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, Commander, U.S. European Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, was honored by Business Executives for National Security (BENS) with its...

demetrios lifts former corona council bans

Theodore Kalmoukos
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May 31, 2012, 02:24 PM

NEW YORK – Archbishop Demetrios of America after eight years lifted through his chancellor Bishop Andonios of Fasiane the “excommunications” from the former Parish Council of the Transfiguration in Co...

ousted president of corona’s parish council breaks silence, talks to tnh

Theodore Kalmoukos
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May 31, 2012, 02:27 PM

NEW YORK – Former President of the Transfiguration Parish Council in Corona, Vasilios Livanos, broke his silence after eight years and spoke exclusively to TNH about the events there that led to the c...

angelo klonis, a greek-american war hero on a u.s stamp – part one

Steve Frangos
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May 31, 2012, 02:28 PM

Some of the most iconic images from World War II are the photographs of Angelo Klonis. First seen in a 1944 Life Magazine article by acclaimed photographer-journalist W. Eugene Smith, the Klonis image...

despite election results, most greeks want euro

May 31, 2012, 02:31 PM

To the Editor: Greek politicians are fiddling while Greece burns. With the country mired in deepening crisis, a catastrophic exit from the euro inching ever closer, what they seem to care most abou...

argentines offer greeks tough advice on fiscal crisis

May 31, 2012, 02:31 PM

By Michael J. Casey Wall Street Journal With a Greek exit from the euro zone now widely seen as a foregone conclusion, it is worth reflecting on the following: • Polls show more than 70% of Greek...

greeks find roman wrecks almost a mile deep near corfu and paxoi

May 31, 2012, 02:29 PM

ATHENS (AP) – Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes rather than riskin...

the seemingly endless eurozone crisis is explained in a few simple graphs

May 31, 2012, 02:29 PM

By Ariel Zirulnick Christian Science Monitor Governments have collapsed. Bailouts have run into the hundreds of billions of euros. Greece is drowning in debt, Italy ousted longtime leader Silvio...

jerusalem’s revered church of the holy sepulcher comes alive at night

May 31, 2012, 02:29 PM

JERUSALEM (AP) — After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holies...

national bank of greece says grexit would cut greek incomes by 50%

May 31, 2012, 02:29 PM

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – An exit from the euro would see Greeks lose more than half their annual income and prompt a dramatic rise in unemployment and inflation, a report from the country's largest bank ...

radical anti-bailout left regains greek poll lead

May 31, 2012, 02:29 PM

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new survey indicates that Greece's radical left Syriza party, which opposes the loan-dependent country's bailout commitments, has regained the lead in opinion polls ahead of cr...

with lit torches in hand, golden dawn marches on

May 31, 2012, 02:31 PM

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Holding torches and chanting "Foreigners out of Greece!" some 2,000 supporters of the extreme right Golden Dawn party marched through central Athens ahead of elections in the f...

insurers halt coverage due to fears about greece

May 31, 2012, 02:31 PM

By Noemie Bisserbe and Ulrike Dauer The Wall Street Journal Two of the world's biggest trade insurers said Wednesday they won't offer new insurance cover for exporters shipping goods to Greece as ...

lagarde says to greece: no softer terms, time to pay up

May 31, 2012, 02:24 PM

By Larry Elliott and Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian The International Monetary Fund has ratcheted up the pressure on crisis-hit Greece after its managing director, Christine Lagarde, said she h...

syriza challenges nd for lead in polls

Andy Dabilis
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May 31, 2012, 02:24 PM

ATHENS – With so much at stake in critical June 17 elections that could determine whether Greece is pushed out of the Eurozone, back to the drachma, and what some fear could be chaos and even anarchy,...

death notices

May 31, 2012, 02:28 PM

n AGNOS, THEODORE G. “ANAGNOSTOPOULOS” MILWAUKEE, WI (From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, published on May 13) – Agnos, Theodore G. "Anagnostopoulos" Born into Eternal Life Tuesday, May 8, 2012, age...

goings on

May 31, 2012, 02:26 PM

n JUNE 2 SOUTHOLD, NY – The American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture presents a day of Celebrating Greece at the Duck Walk Vineyards on Saturday, Jun. 2 at 6PM. There will be food, music, d...

understanding the greek-euro crisis is helpful in managing personal investments

Amb. Patrick N. Theros
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May 31, 2012, 02:32 PM

If you cannot figure out what is going on in Greece, Europe, and beyond, you are not alone. As far away as Doha, Qatar, a blue-ribbon panel featured at the UCLA-sponsored Doha Forum argued for hours o...

europe, germany, and merkel: historic misunderstanding?

Dr. Andre Gerolymatos
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May 31, 2012, 02:38 PM

The dream of a united Europe was born out of the ashes of the Second Word War and offered hope for a future without war. The dreamers were Europe’s intellectuals and those Europeans accepted unity as ...

lagarde pays the price of telling the truth about greece

Andy Dabilis
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May 31, 2012, 02:32 PM

Unlike Captain Renault, who, while visiting Rick’s Cafe in the movie Casablanca, shouts that “I’m shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here!” only be handed his winnings a moment ...

2012 presidential race - update

Constantine E. Scaros
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May 31, 2012, 02:28 PM

Mitt Romney made it official. By winning the Texas primary, he has won the majority of delegates necessary to secure the Republican presidential nomination. It seems like an eternity ago that Romney ...

agora – should greek-americans vacation in greece this year?

Antonis H. Diamataris and Constantinos E. Scaros
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May 31, 2012, 02:31 PM

From time to time an issue emerges and inspires various minds to converge, often at odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, collective enlightenment will result from such conversations. The A...

european shocks and strategic disintegration part iv: useful idiots in the land of ds

By Prof. John E. Charalambakis
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May 31, 2012, 02:38 PM

I love dogmas (our first D). I know that in politically correct terms, dogma is an antiquated term that should die. However, dogmas are like the oxygen. You may not be able to see the oxygen with the ...

all paths and pendulum effects in greece must lead to one thing: profound reform

Dean J. Argiris
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May 31, 2012, 02:38 PM

Anyone who has ever been involved in politics will know about the “pendulum effect.” It is a term that has been used often in American politics to explain the shifting dynamics between the White Hous...

keeping greece in the eurozone and avoiding a grexit

The Washington Post
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May 31, 2012, 02:38 PM

These are tense times for the global economy. China seems headed for at least a mild downshifting in its previously hectic growth. Brazil’s central bank says that country’s economy contracted in the f...

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