Former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican who stunned the political world when she decided last year against running for re-election because she was disenchanted with political bickering between parties, says in her upcoming book that rivals should learn to work together for the good of the country. In an interview with the Associated [...]
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For March 25, Kerry Lauds Greek Austerity
Marking the 192nd anniversary on March 25 of Greece’s independence from Ottoman occupation, U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry noted the country’s crushing economic crisis but said the government is on the right track by continuing to push reforms that include hard austerity measures. “The United States applauds Greece’s efforts to reform its economy and [...]
US Says Greek Smuggled Iranian Oil
The U.S. government has put sanctions on a Greek businessman and his companies for allegedly helping Iran avoid international restrictions to export oil and smuggle the precious commodity. The Treasury Department said Dmitris Cambis bought oil tankers using Iranian funds and transported Iranian oil, disguising its origin, to evade an international effort to shut down [...]
Obama Tabs Mathews As Budget Chief
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated a Greek-American, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, a veteran of the Clinton administration and Walmart’s current philanthropic director to lead his Office of Management and Budget. She will replace the acting director, Jeffrey Zients. If confirmed by the Senate, this will be Burwell’s second stint at OMB, having served there as a [...]
Fla. Daughter Honors Dad’s WWII Exploits
Kim Dabilis-Byrne of Ft. Myers, Fla., a transplant from Chelmsford, Mass. and Milford, N.H., had often wondered about what her father, Vasilios “William” Dabilis, 89, had done during World War II, seeing some photos from that time: he as an 18-year-old with U.S. Army buddies in the Phillippines for one. That led her to assemble [...]
SFX Oscar Winner Petro Vlahos Dies
Petro Vlahos, a two-time Academy Award winner who pioneered special effects for Hollywood films, with a blue- and green-screen technique on movies such as Mary Poppins and Ben Hur made the modern blockbuster possible, has died at 96, three days before this year’s Oscars. His family said he died on Feb. 10, according to the [...]
Papandreou Roasted For Columbia Gig
Already beset by much criticism for making big money delivering lectures at Harvard on the Greek economic crisis he helped create, former Prime Minister George Papandreou is now facing more complaints that he’s doing the same at fellow Ivy League school Columbia, in New York. The school announced last month that it was proud to [...]
Greek Charged in N.Y. Dali Theft
A 29-year-old Greek man who said he realized as soon as he stole a Salvador Dali painting from a New York gallery last year that it was mistake and anonymously mailed it back nonetheless pleaded not guilty to grand larceny charges on Feb. 20. Police said Phivos Istavrioglou, who was captured on security cameras taking [...]
Greek Journalist Blames Papandreou For Crisis
Greece’s crushing economic crisis was deliberately caused by former prime minister George Papandreou so he could impose harsh austerity measures, a Washington, D.C.-based Greek journalist has claimed, although he didn’t explain why. Michael Ignatiu, a correspondent with Greece’s MEGA TV channel, wrote in Epikaira that he believes Papandreou, who is now lecturing at Columbia University [...]
Papandreou’s NY Digs: Move Over, Lady Gaga
While a fifth of Greeks have been pushed into poverty by austerity measures he imposed on the orders of international lenders, former Prime Minister George Papandreou will live in a luxury apartment in Manhattan, courtesy of the Ivy League school Columbia University, which is going to also pay him $30,000 to give seven lectures. His [...]
Tsipras Makes SYRIZA’s Case in U.S.
Greece’s major opposition party leader Alexis Tsipas, who heads the anti-austerity Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), has told an American audience in the first leg of a U.S. swing that they have nothing to fear if he comes to lead the government. SYRIZA is locked in a virtual tie with the New Democracy Conservatives [...]
Greek Yogurt for Obama Inauguration
Guests at President Barack Obama’s inaugural celebrations will be able to get a taste of Greece too, as the Greek-style yogurt Chobani, which is made in New York, and the Fage brand from Greece will be served to guests before the Presidential Inaugural Luncheon, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said. Fage’s American supplies are made in [...]
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