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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
PARIS – Distinguished academic and economist Costas Vergopoulos died in Paris, aged 75.
Part of a group of leftist Greeks who made Paris their home in the 70s, Vergopoulos received his PhD from the Sorbonne and held a professorship in political economy at the University of Paris VIII.
He taught and lectured at several other universities as well, including Panteion, Princeton, and New School, and was frequently invited to lecture at Latin American higher educational institutions.
An author of several books, in Greece he was best known for “The Agrarian Question in Greece,” originally published in French in Paris (1977). He had also served as consultant to the European Union, UNESCO, the United Nations Development Program and the Asia-Europe Meeting.
Messages of condolences were issued by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA party, and the president of parliament Nikos Voutsis among others.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
ISTANBUL (AP) — A court in Turkey sentenced nine rail officials to more than 108 years' imprisonment over a crash six years ago that killed 25 people, local media reported on Thursday.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Sydney bishop who was stabbed repeatedly in an alleged extremist attack blamed on a teenager has backed X Corp.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks know when it's coming.