Beginning what could prove to be a long financial crisis, Cyprus may yet have to hope it finds lucrative gas reserves off its coast, the New York Times has reported. Since the discovery of the gas two years ago, Cyprus has been laying plans to get the gas to market by circumventing Turkey, which has [...]
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Black History Month and the Greeks
It’s February, Black History Month, and after reading an op-ed by Washington-based lawyer and political activist Andreas Akaras (“When Philotimo Stood with African-Americans), in the English edition of the National Herald, I thought it was only fitting to add a few touches to a great job. Without offering eulogies, because as many were the Greeks [...]
With Secretary Kerry Coming In So Are New Opportunities
By Demetrios Rhompotis* - Tomorrow, Friday, February 1st, will be the last day for Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. While it is early for a thorough assessment of her tenure, none can seriously question her skills and energy, especially the latter. According to NY Times columnist Gail Collins, she traveled 956,733 miles (imagine how many free trips [...]
Reconstructing: The New Reality of a New-Yorker
By Rygo Foss, Legal Counsel of Skyline Restoration Inc* – 2012 was filled with surprises having enormous implications on the construction industry. No shortage of drama. So with it, were you surprised? In a relatively short three years, the industry’s concept of normal and non-normal (whether environmental or policy), is changing. Is your “surprise” threshold [...]
Diamantopoulou Tells Romney to Back Greece
Greek MP from the PASOK Socialist party and former Greek Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou has called on Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney to support the struggles of Greeks during the country’s crushing economic crisis and to stop using the country’s crisis as an example of wrongdoing. In a piece in the Huffington Post, Diamantopoulou claims [...]
Mitt Romney, Greece is Not a Punching Bag
A Greek-American’s answer to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney who wants to save America from going “…down the path toward Greece.” By Dean Argiris* – Far too often, it seems, when we see others who posses traits that we feel we lack, we have a tendency to mock those individuals. Yesterday, Governor Romney, without knowing [...]
Petrocheilos, Melissaratos Make Hellenism Shine
As a freshman at Johns Hopkins University, I had entered the Mattin Center looking to find the meeting for the Hellenic Student Association. I noticed a couple people speaking in Greek, so I realized that I was in the right place. I did not really know what to expect from a cultural organization. Maybe a [...]
President Obama’s Ticking Greek Time Bomb Could Derail Campaign
Yet another American analyst is suggesting that Greece could be forced out of the Eurozone in the next few months and that it be a “ticking Greek time bomb” exploding President Barack Obama’s chances for re-election. In a column for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a neo-conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. that produced many [...]
IAGTM: English Words Originated From Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (Part 2)
Three new words for you today: The word Humor comes from Himor (juicy or someone who is happy or excited; Gr: χυμόρ;), originated from the word Himos (Juice; Gr: χυμός;) in Euboean Dialect (Gr: ευβοϊκή διάλεκτο;). First found on Plato’s Kratylos (Gr: Κρατύλος του Πλάτωνος;) where the final sigma (s; Gr: σ, ς ) is pronounced as r (Gr: ρ;) The word Marmelade comes from the [...]
A Greek-American Proposition to the Greek Crisis
By John Kalafatis* – Throughout the ongoing developments regarding Greece’s predicament, I have yet to come across a thorough and logical analysis as to what brought Greece to its knees financially and a plausible solution to the problem. Thoughtless borrowing for conspicuous consumption; a bloated, counterproductive, corrupt public sector of inconceivable proportions, as well as [...]
English Words Originated From Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (Part 1)
Two words for you today that came from the Greek Poet Homer. The word amen comes from the latin “amen,” the well known amen that we all know from the Bible and all the Christian scripts. What most of us don’t know is that amen comes from imin (true or truthful; better pronounced emen; Gr: ή-μήν; in Hellenistic [...]
Greek Origins of Everyday Words
More than 200.000 words in all the Latin-based modern languages (English, Spanish, Italian, French etc.) originate from Greek, around 70.000 of them directly and the rest through Latin. The purpose of this column is not to teach Glossology, it is to present interesting, even funny, Greek origins of every day words and expressions in English. As a [...]
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