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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.
Panathinaikos has been, and continues to be, in an utter free fall. The last league title that the historic club has won is now a distant 10 years ago, Olympiacos wins the domestic trophies at will and has now firmly supplanted Panathinaikos as Greece’s representative club in European competition. It’s been a slow, grueling death for the club that was known as the pride of Greece which brought clubs like Inter Milan, Juventus, and other behemoths to their knees.
What has happened to Panathinaikos is sadly endemic to Greece whereby much like the country with clueless, or worse, corrupt politicians, board of directors and managers passed through the club who had no business owning the Panathinaikos or governing the day to day operations.
It’s been painful to watch one of Greece’s great brands accept mediocrity and then slip so far that mediocrity becomes the goal. It reminds me a lot of Olympic Airlines where it was once the pride of Greece under the ownership of Aristotle Onassis and then, when turned over to the Greek state, and like most things turned over to the Greek state, it went bust.
Panathinaikos had one of the wealthiest families in Greece as guarantors of the club and they got run out by a mass movement of disgruntled, hardcore, fans who didn’t realize how good they had it. What they traded European glory for is a hapless businessman who bankrupts everything he touches and was famously not trusted by his own father to continue his legacy and advance the business interests of the family. In the end, we get the leaders we deserve and that same gentleman to a large degree dictates political opinion in the country and has one of its famous brands staring down the barrel of ruin.
In the reset of Greece post-COVID-19 let’s resolve to having competence trump nepotism. Free Panathinaikos!
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.