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A Fighter Readies Athens for the Olympics
  • June 11, 2004
With the deep, gravelly voice of a diva, the dimples of a debutante and the stature of an imposing Greek goddess, Dora Bakoyannis, the mayor of Athens, has taken on the challenge of a lifetime: hostin...
The Rigas Family Dynamic Sets the Case Apart
  • June 04, 2004
NEW YORK. - (NY Times / Bloomberg  News) While testifying this month at the fraud trial of John J. Rigas and two of his sons, Timothy and Michael, in connection with the financial collapse of Ade...
Solace on the Site of Disaster
  • David W. Dunlap
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  • May 27, 2004
It is the smallest building planned at ground zero. But the architects who will compete to design the new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church may face the biggest challenge....
Myth Behind the Movie: Goddess of discord had a hand in setting off the Trojan War
  • Arthur Kaptainis
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  • May 21, 2004
Is this the quiz that launched a thousand ships? See what you know about the Trojan War....
Trojan Fever Breaking Out, Both Seriously And Less So
  • Alessandra Stanley
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  • May 14, 2004
NEW YORK. - Fittingly perhaps the A&E documentary “Troy: The Passion of Helen'' is a Trojan horse. Hidden inside a shell of historical inquiry and feminist revisionism lies a movie trailer f...
Terror Threat Makes Olympics a Tough Call for Bush
  • May 07, 2004
LONDON. - The dark clouds over Athens grew a little more threatening last week when Mark Spitz, the American swimming legend, told the BBC that terrorism concerns might prompt the US to withdraw from ...
Cyprus Vote Offers Turkey Silver Lining
  • Hugh Pope and Brandon Mitchener
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  • April 30, 2004
NEW YORK. - A decades-long effort to reunite the Mediterranean island of Cyprus collapsed Saturday, with voters on the Greek side of the island rejecting a United Nations-brokered plan....
Scientist Dips into Greek Past to Improve Water Quality
  • April 23, 2004
BUFFALO, N.Y. - An invention from ancient Greece is helping a University at Buffalo scientist develop a new way to purify water and other fluids. It was Archimedes who first described the screw p...
Beholding Byzantium
  • April 09, 2004
The galleries of a major exhibition like “Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557),” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are nearly always filled with formulaic poses. One viewer clasps his h...
The Balkans and Iraq: Elective Wars vs. Designer Wars
  • Dr. Nikolaos A. Stavrou
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  • April 09, 2004
The Albanian extremists of Kosovo and the Balkan extensions of al Qaeda have resumed the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from the region, literary under NATO’s nose....
Don’t Blame Greece Alone for the Olympic Mess
  • George Vecsey
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  • April 02, 2004
NEW YORK. Like socks being tossed over the side of the sleigh to keep the wolves occupied, various projects are now being discarded in Athens....
The Rejection of the ‘Annan Plan’ was Inevitable
  • April 02, 2004

ATHENS, Greece. - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s peace plan, which late yesterday appeared doomed to be rejected by Athens and Nicosia, would provide an opportunity to resolve the longstan...

10 Questions For Kostas Karamanlis
  • Anthee Carassava - New York Times
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  • March 26, 2004
ATHENS. - Greece's center-right new democracy party, led by Kostas Karamanlis, 47, surged to victory in last week's parliamentary polls, ending the long reign of the Socialists, who had held power for...
In Coudersport, Support for Rigas Undiminished
  • Diana Nelson Jones
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  • March 19, 2004

COUDERSPORT, Pa. - John J. Rigas refers to the past two years as “this terrible experience.”

“Some days,” he says, “I get really depressed.”

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The U.N.’s Favorite Occupation
  • Shlomo Avineri
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  • March 12, 2004
On May 1, 2004, Cyprus will join the European Union. The island has been divided since the Turkish invasion in 1974, with a Turkish puppet regime in the North. For decades, futile negotiations have be...
A New Beginning for Cyprus
  • March 05, 2004
For three long decades, the people of Cyprus have been held hostage to a diplomatic impasse that sliced their island in two, separated families from their homes, poisoned relations between Greece and ...
Despite Gains, Greeks Enter Election Season of Discontent
  • Frank Bruni
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  • February 19, 2004
ATHENS, Feb. 15 — For most of the last quarter century, Greeks have entrusted their welfare to the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, and that center-left party has racked up a string of accomplis...
Greek Archbishop Healing Rifts
  • Charles W. Bell
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  • February 12, 2004
Saturday, February 7th, 2004
     He asked aides to not make a big deal of the big day, but the word clearly did not trickle down to the faithful in the pews of St. Demetrios, ...
It's Goodbye Zorba, Hello Olympics in Greece
  • George Melloan
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  • January 29, 2004
Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis has called a parliamentary election for March 7. However it turns out, Greek politics are likely to take a turn for the better. A new generation of leaders has ente...
Returning ‘Elgin’ Marbles Would Whitewash Europe's Past
  • Salvatore Settis
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  • January 22, 2004
It took a consummate actress like Melina Mercouri to realize that archaeology has a part to play in politics. As Greece's minister of culture in the 1980s, she launched a vibrato appeal to the British...
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