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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.
NEW YORK – Forbes magazine released its annual list of the 400 richest Americans on October 5 with three Greek-Americans on the list, Jim Davis, Tom Gores, and John Catsimatidis.
Davis is 134th on the list, a descendant of Greek immigrants, started by buying a small shoe store in 1972 which he turned into New Balance, valued at $3.6 billion.
Gores is ranked 176th on the list with a fortune of $5.9 billion, while Catsimatidis is ranked 310th with a fortune of $3.7 billion.
In all, the fortunes of America's 400 richest people have risen 40 percent in the past year to $4.5 trillion, up from $ 3.2 trillion. In fact, almost everyone is richer than a year ago.
Jeff Bezos once again topped the list as the richest man in America for the fourth consecutive year. The founder and president of Amazon is worth $201 billion, $22 billion more than last year.
This is the first time someone on the Forbes 400 list is worth $200 billion or more. At No. 2 is Elon Musk, who is worth $190.5 billion, almost three times what he was worth on the 2020 list, due to the huge increase in the share price of the electric car company Tesla.
Mark Zuckerberg took third place, thanks to the jump of 63% of Facebook shares from last year's list. Bill Gates fell to fourth place on the list, the first time in 30 years that he was not in the top two. Gates and his wife Melinda announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage in May 2021. Shortly afterwards, he transferred to her approximately $5.7 billion worth of stock in companies such as Deere & Co and Canadian Railway. Melinda Gates therefore appears on the Forbes 400 for the first time this year at No. 158, with $6.3 billion.
The minimum net worth required to make the list this year was $2.9 billion, up from the cutoff of $2.1 billion in the previous three years. As a result of the higher cutoff amount, 51 billionaires were bumped from the Forbes 400 in 2021, including Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey.
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.