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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.
Long one of the most famous – and best – sports journalists in the world, Bob Costas never shied from asking tough questions and is pondering one for NBC, where he worked 40 years before the end came.
“There was no announcement. I didn’t need a parade, but it would’ve been nice if I could’ve ended on a grace note … I would’ve been fine if they just had me do some sort of programming and then at the end, for two minutes, say goodbye. The only thing I wish about leaving NBC is that it ended on a more gracious note and maybe we’ll circle back and make that right at some point,” Costas said on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. “Make it completely right.”
He was the face of coverage for many Olympic Games Costas and had gone to CNN for a commentating job and has an HBO show called Back On the Record with Bob Costas.
Before Super Bowl 52 he talked about concussions saying this game destroys people’s brains.” That got him pulled from the telecast but he didn’t care. That’s on the record.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.