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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.
With lockdowns aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19 slowly being lifted, people mostly stuck at home will be able to see some Hollywood blockbusters on Facebook to benefit first responders and other heroes fighting the pandemic.
It includes My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the 2002 sensation of writer and actor Nia Vardalos who brought to the world the funny if ironically stereotypically Portokalos family and friends, and her father, portrayed by Greek-American actor Michael Constantine, who figured Windex could cure anything and regaled her friends with the Greek roots of English words, including kimono he said came from Greek word winter – so you wear a robe.
The film was made for $5 million and earned more than $241 million at the box office, making Vardalos a household name, along with a lot of Greek words and eccentricities displayed by her oddball family.
“We are grateful to the big-hearted clients and studios who have made these special experiences happen on Facebook,” said Richard Lovett, president of CAA. “We hope audiences have a great time revisiting these classic movies in the company of the stars.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.