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Friday, October 17, 2014

Harder: Inclusivity — A Greek Perspective

I entered my first Greek house at Dartmouth as a junior in high school. I was up at Dartmouth visiting my older brother, a member of the Class of 2013, ...


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PM says Greece exploring precautionary credit, doesn't need aid

Athens (AFP) - Greece doesn't need a new bailout plan, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Friday, despite markets lashing the country over the government's intention to exit its IMF aid programme early.


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Dartmouth Student Newspaper Calls For End Of College's Greek System

The entire front page of Dartmouth College's student newspaper Friday is an editorial devoted to the future of the campus' Greek system, a heated and controversial topic. The Dartmouth's message is clear — "Abolish the Greek System," the headline reads — and is likely unpopular at a school where more than half of all students are members of a fraternity or sorority. While the newspaper acknowledges that "Greek life is not the root of all the College's problems or of broader societal ills ... as a system, it amplifies students' worst behavior." As The Dartmouth argues, "It facilitates binge drinking and sexual assault. It perpetuates unequal, gendered power dynamics and institutionalizes arbitrary exclusivity. It divides students — the system as a whole separates freshmen from upperclassmen, men from women. Membership draws lines among friends." Dartmouth's Greek system has often come under attack over the past few years, as the editorial details, most recently with the publication of former Dartmouth Sigma Alpha Epsilon member Andrew Lohse's memoir of his time in the fraternity. Click here for the full Dartmouth editorial or check out the full paper below: SEE ALSO: 9 Disturbing Revelations From The New Book About Fraternity Culture At Dartmouth FOLLOW US! Check Out BI Colleges On Facebook Join the conversation about this story »


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Dartmouth Student Newspaper Runs Front-Page Editorial: Abolish The Greek System

Despite the meaning many find in the Greek system -- which, as an affiliated woman, I've witnessed firsthand -- we kept returning to the same ...


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Greek god wins inaugurual beard, moustache awards

Wakelin studies Greek Literature as part of his Masters in Classics at Canterbury University and was decked out in a toga to complete his Dionysus ...


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Greece in talks with eurozone over precautionary support, PM says

Greece will accept some form of precautionary support to exit its bailout this year, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Friday after several days of bond and stock market turmoil. The premier’s comments suggest that Athens, its eurozone partners and t... ...


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London-Based Greek Boxer Wins World Title in Athens

600AretiWorldTitle Areti Mastrodouka is a 38-year-old Greek boxer based in London. Last Sunday, October 12, she won the world title in GBU ...


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Filmmaker Sheds Light on "Valiant," Greek-Born Hero of the Ludlow Massacre

At a time when Greece has neither heroes nor a labor movement, two passionate Greeks, journalist, radio producer, script writer and filmmaker ...


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Chicago A Capella Group Performs 'Global Transcendence' Concert With Repertoire For World Religions

With religious tensions high around the world, one Chicago-based a capella group is aiming to make a difference with the one tool it has: music. Chicago A Capella kicked off its "Global Transcendence" program with concerts on October 11-12, and two more are scheduled for this weekend. The program showcases "the musical intersections of the world’s faiths" with selections from Jewish, Hindu, Baha'i, Christian and other traditions. The interfaith theme of the concert is deeply rooted in founder and artistic director Jonathan Miller's own background. In the program notes for the show, Miller wrote: My parents met while studying Hinduism and meditation in Boston. Swami Akhilananda, my parents’ teacher and one of the pioneering bridge-builders between Eastern and Western religion and psychology, had posted on the wall of the Boston Vedanta Society a saying from the Rig Veda, a sacred Sanskrit text, which began: “Truth is One; Sages call It by various names.” My parents taught me this idea in my earliest years, and it remains a birthright of sorts for me. On top of this background, Miller serves as cantor during High Holy Days services at a Conservative Jewish synagogue in Chicago and has sung in Catholic and Protestant services for decades, the group's executive director Matthew Greenberg told HuffPost. Combine Miller's passion for spiritual traditions with current events, and the show's timing could not be better, Greenberg said. "It seems that never before has our world been more aware of sectarian and inter-religious conflict," he said. "It so fills the airwaves and information flow that we begin to think there is nothing that connects us, only that which divides." This concert, Greenberg said, aims to dispute that. Listen to a sampling of Chicago A Capella's "Global Transcendence" program below: "Dastam Begir," a Baha’i song with soloist Emily Price: Begins with Eshu O, a traditional Ghanaian chant, and segues into “Alleluiarion of Pentekoste," a traditional Greek Orthodox chant: “O Lux Beatissima” by Howard Helvey, featuring ancient Christian text:


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The Guardian view on Europes economic troubles

Tumbling markets, anxieties over the viability of banks and differences over austerity show that the crisis in the eurozone is still very much with usSince the banking crash, Europe has been engaged in a long drawn out process of trying to shove a problem under the carpet, pat down the lumps and hope no one notices. This is the settlement that is being tested this autumn. What we are seeing at the moment are the first tremors, notably spiralling borrowing costs for Athens. But the worry is that these tremors will get stronger and combine in a toxic way with other problems. The outlook for the US and the UK is now cloudier than it has been at any time in the past three years, yet the US central bank is said to be about to end its quantitative easing regime of flooding banks with cheap money. That may be postponed, but an end must come sooner or later. Chinas economy is slowing down, Japans is immobile. The Bank of Englands chief economist, Andy Haldane, said this week: Put in plain English, I am gloomier... This implies interest rates could remain lower for longer, certainly than I had expected three months ago, without endangering the inflation target.It is worth recalling that the roots of this crisis lie in a German squeeze on wages, intended to maintain German competitiveness in the global economy, which led to southern Europe becoming uncompetitive in comparison. The difference was largely made up by banks in France and Germany and northern Europe then lending to the south so that the Spanish and the Greeks could keep buying their BMWs and Mieles. When southern European governments could no longer borrow from world markets, the big banks of northern Europe stood to go bust. Continue reading...


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Judges request that record heroin shipment be investigated further

A 62-year-old former high-ranking executive of a Dubai-based shipping firm who is currently in pretrial custody over Greece’s biggest heroin seizure masterminded the smuggling of more than 2 tons of the drug into Greece on a Togo-flagged tanker in June, t... ...


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Greece Plans Extra LNG Imports in Case of Cut in Russian Gas Supplies

Greece is in talks over extra imports of liquefied natural gas from Algeria to avert possible shortages in case of a cut in Russian gas supplies, a senior Greek official has said. ...


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Greek Singer Michalis Hatzigiannis to Perform at Melbourne Festival

Well-known Greek-Cypriot singer Michalis Hatzigiannis arrived in Melbourne in order to take part in the city’s festival. The singer stated that he likes visiting Australia since it is a place where he can enjoy his relative anonymity. “It gives me ...


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Greece Looks For Credit Line

Greece is in talks with rescue lenders over a possible credit line to ease the country's exit from its 240 billion euro bailout program. The post Greece Looks For Credit Line appeared first on The National Herald.


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Big rebound for Greek securities

Greek securities recovered on Friday about half of the ground lost over the previous three days in a spectacular rebound in both stock and bond prices that was fueled by a combination of factors in the context of a general resurgence of European markets. ... ...


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Athens complains to Tirana about attack on ethnic Greeks

Athens has filed a demarche with Albania’s Foreign Ministry over a raid earlier this week by a group of about 100 Albanian youths on the predominantly ethnic Greek village of Dervicani, in the south of the neighboring country. Greece’s ambassador in Tiran... ...


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Sierra Leone's John Kamara banished by Greek club over Ebola

Greek club PAS Lamia have asked Sierra Leone's John Kamara not to train or play with the club for three weeks due to fears over the Ebola virus.


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Verbum Ultimum: Abolish the Greek System

But even if Dartmouth's Greek system were the most inclusive Ivy League social system — which many students believe to be true — young adults still ...


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How To Watch That 'Once-In-A-Lifetime' Comet Swing By Mars

A comet will be swinging by Mars this Sunday, and eager astronomers say they're ready for the "once-in a lifetime event." Comet C/2013 A1, or 'Siding Spring' will make its closest approach to Mars at 2:27 p.m. EDT, coming within 87,000 miles of the red planet's surface . That's 16 times closer than any comet has ever come near Earth and less than half the distance from Earth to the moon. “This is a cosmic science gift that could potentially keep on giving, and the agency’s diverse science missions will be in full receive mode,” John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., said in a written statement. “This particular comet has never before entered the inner solar system, so it will provide a fresh source of clues to our solar system's earliest days.” NASA will be tracking the spectacular flyby with a massive fleet of spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes. How can you get in on the fun? With the help of binoculars and telescopes, skywatchers in the U.S. may be able to spot Mars and the comet by looking west and low to the horizon after sunset. The SLOOH Community Observatory will also be broadcasting a live feed of the flyby starting at 2:15 p.m. EDT. Just check it out above. “Our focus is science, not mythology,” Slooh astronomer Bob Berman said in a written statement. "But it is hard to ignore the world’s historical legends when a comet -- traditionally perceived as a sinister omen -- skims past the planet named for war, whose two moons are the Greek words for ‘fear’ and ‘death.’” Happy comet spotting! Animation of Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring / Mars encounter via Near-Earth Object (NEO) office and NASA JPL.


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Greek PM: No Need for New Memorandum

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras appeared optimistic earlier today that the country is not going to need a new memorandum and it will soon be on track of development. During a press conference on the sidelines of the European Union-Asia Summit Meeting ...


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Young girl out of danger after eating toxic mushrooms

A young girl suffering from food poisoning after consuming toxic mushrooms was reportedly in a stable condition on Friday. The 2-year-old from Volos, central Greece, has been at the Ippocrateio Hospital of Thessaloniki since Tuesday. She is the seventh pe... ...


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Ex-national player arrested over failure to pay worker compensation

Former Greek national basketball team player Fanis Christodoulou was arrested and then bailed on the island of Paros on Friday after a court ordered him to pay 280,000 euros in compensation to an employee, money which the ex-athlete says he does not have.... ...


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S Leone player banished over Ebola

Greek club PAS Lamai ask Sierra Leone's John Kamara to stay at home for three weeks due to fears over the Ebola virus.


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Jupiter Ditches Greek Bonds on ECB Bet

Ariel Bezalel, who helps manage Jupiter's $51 billion of assets, said his fund started reducing its position in Greek debt “a few weeks ago” and ...


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OTE bags Greek rights to Uefa competitions

“With Champions League, Europa League and the rest of the top international and Greek sports tournaments hosted by OTE TV, our clients enjoy by ...


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Ranieri gets Greece backing despite poor start

Under-pressure Greece coach Claudio Ranieri was publicly backed by Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) president Giorgos Sarris on Thursday amid doubts over the Italian's future after his team's dire start to the Euro 2016 qualifiers. Ranieri, who has been... ...


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Greek Pub Among World’s Best

“The Local Pub” in Athens, Greece, was ranked among the world’s best by Thrillist website. Expert Zack Mack traveled across the globe to discover the top pubs and presented each establishment’s best beer. “Those Greeks are at it again! First they invent democracy and then they open up a quaint, cozy pub with a world-class beer selection. Their 20 draft lines and 100 available bottles showcase the comfort classics like AleSmith IPA and Sierra Nevada Narwhal, while still showing love to domestic breweries like Septem,” says the article. The pub’s must-taste is Septem Citra Single Hop IPA. The top ten includes Akkurat in Stockholm, Bakusyu Club Popeye in Tokyo, Beerhouse in Cape Town, The Brew Dock in Dublin, Brothers Beer in Oakland, Café Abseits in Bamberg, Dieu du Ciel in Montreal, Empório Alto dos Pinheiros in Sao Paolo, Euston Tap in London and The Globe in Hong Kong.


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Greek E-commerce Increased by 25% in 2013

The e-commerce proceeds in Greece increased by 25% last year compared to 2012, reaching 3.2 billion euros, according to a report on online trade in southern Europe published on Thursday by E-commerce Europe. It is estimated that this rise is due to the proliferation of online offers and discounts in the crisis period. This rapid increase in internet purchases has turned the e-commerce sector in one of the fastest-growing in Greek economy, with its contribution to Greece’s gross domestic product reaching 1.76%. The report notes that online purchases could help the Greek economy grow in the coming years. Half of internet purchases in Greece are related to services and the other half to products. In 2013, the turnover of retail trade increased by 2.9%. It is not accidental that apart from businesses operating exclusively on internet sales, more and more traditional businesses create electronic shops. The increase in the turnover of e-commerce has exceeded both the average in southern Europe (18.9%) and the average across the European Union (14.7%). The report ranks Greeks first in southern Europe, in terms of money spent in internet purchases. The E-commerce Europe report included Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Croatia, Cyprus and Malta.


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Eurozone crisis: interactive timeline

Bailouts, riots, recession - key events in the five years of the eurozone crisis, as tracked by the contrasting fortunes of Greek and German government bonds Continue reading...


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Unknown UN Documentary on Post-War Greece Comes to Light

A documentary about Greece in the aftermath of the Civil War and World War II that was found in the United Nations archives in 2007 will be shown on October 30, at 8:00 pm at the National Archives headquarters in Psychiko, Athens. The screening will be part of celebrating the International Day of Cultural Heritage. According to Greek newspaper “Ta Nea,” a United Nations film crew came to Athens in 1955 to record the country’s reconstruction after the war and the effect of the Marshall Plan in Greek society. The 18-minute-long documentary is entitled “Kryfto” (Greek for hide and seek) and follows a man who is looking for a job in Athens. He is a family man and either a refugee from Asia Minor or someone who came from the province to seek a better life for his family. He is looking for a job in the Varvakios market and continues his walk in Plaka, Monastiraki, Thisio, Petralona and Keramikos. The documentary shows the grim reality of the poor Athens neighborhoods and the struggles of everyday people to put food on the table, the rebuilding of Athens and the foreign humanitarian aid given to children and the elderly. “Kryfto” is part of a trilogy on refugees. The two documentaries that complete the trilogy are “Island Exile” and “Trois des nos Enfants” (Three of Our Children). The documentaries were found in 2007 when a group of National Audiovisual Archives members visited the United Nations archives in New York in order to find audiovisual material that pertains to Greece.


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Golden Dawn: entire Greek neo-Nazi party faces trial

A Greek public prosecutor on Thursday demanded that the Golden Dawn party's entire parliamentary group stand trial for criminal offenses, the ...


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Surprising Things You Don't Know About Greek Yogurt

By now we know that protein-packed greek yogurt can be used as a healthy alternative in just about anything, from dips, to dressings, to desserts ...


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Greece to Seek Precautionary Credit Line

ATHENS—Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Friday that his government was ready to negotiate a precautionary credit line to protect the country from market turmoil, even as it prepares to exit its current bailout program. Speaking in Milan after a ...


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Greek crisis redux? Not exactly

This week's explosion of Greek bond spreads and collapse of stocks prompted many people to have a sense of deja vu. Numerous editors and analysts jumped in to call the new turmoil a repeat of 2010, when the geometric growth of Greek sovereign bond yields ... ...


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Greek PM dismisses snap election fears, pledges reforms

Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras addresses lawmakers before a confidence vote for the country's coalition government in Athens October 10, ...


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Turkey's Dying Greek Press

The men, all Turkish, cannot read a word of the paper because it's in Greek. Soon they will hand deliver all 600 copies of Apoyevmatini (which ...


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Greek eyes precautionary credit line after bailout

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's prime minister said his government is in talks with rescue lenders over a possible precautionary credit line to ease the country's exit from its 240 billion euro ($308 billion) bailout program. Antonis Samaras, speaking to ...


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Huge Rally In Greece

Stocks in Greece staged a huge rally on Friday...


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Come rain AND shine: Britain to be hotter than Greece tomorrow

Forecasters say Hurricane Gonzalo - the strongest Atlantic storm in three years - is heading for the UK and will unleash heavy rain and 50mph gales when it hits on Monday night.


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This Is What It Looks Like When 'No Brainer' Trades Go Spectacularly Wrong

With Islamic State militants gaining ground in Iraq, Russia going head-to-head with the West over an uprising in Ukraine and chaos in Libya earlier this year it looked inevitable that a number of key oil producers were set for a squeeze. This presented one clear and compelling conclusion — oil prices were set to rise. The only problem was that it proved completely wrong. And so the money flowed — and flowed — into the trade. In fact bet by traders in the oil market that prices would rise reached their highest level in over a decade: Well it didn't turn out too well. Rather than climbing the oil price has collapsed from around $115 a barrel in June to $87 a barrel as at Friday. Traders have flooding out their positions with "liquidation in net speculative length...such that Brent is outright short with WTI net spec positions far off their highs" according to a note from Goldman Sachs.  The reason for the collapse? Almost every story traders were telling themselves about why oil prices just had to rise turned out to be wrong. The Libya story Crude oil supply disruptions in Libya became a big problem again in 2013 with the US Energy Information Administration reporting that "from the end of July to the end of August, crude oil supply outages in Libya more than doubled" as the country fell back into civil war. This helped push prices higher and increase concerns about the prospect for further supply disruption. Little in the developments of 2014 seemed to count against those fears. In August Islamist rebels captured the airport in the capital Tripoli and last month the Libyan parliament was forced to flee to the small town of Tobruk where they took refuge on a Greek car ferry. Nevertheless, despite the huge disruption to the political and social life of the country the oil continued to flow against expectations. The Russia story Following protests in Kiev that saw the Ukrainian president flee the country and his government collapse, a secession movement in the east of the country has been fighting with the new Ukrainian state. These rebels have the political support of Russia, and many believe that Moscow has also been supplying them with on-the-ground support including military hardware and personnel. In response, the US and the European Union have imposed sanctions on Russia targeting the country's banks, oil and gas industries and imposing travel bans on a number of Russian citizens. Again, it seemed clear that Russia would either impose limits on oil exports itself as a tit-for-tat measure or would struggle to maintain the same level of trade with the West while the crisis continued. And yet, as Reuters reports: Output of oil and gas condensate in the world's largest producer rose 0.9 percent to 10.61 million barrels per day (bpd) last month [in September] from August, a touch under the post-Soviet record-high of 10.63 million bpd reached in December, Energy Ministry data showed.  The Iraq story Islamic State militants operating across the porous border between Syria and Iraq have seized control of large swathes of land in Iraq. The group's early success against Iraqi government forces caused many to worry that the country's oil producing infrastructure could ultimately be taken or damaged if fighting continued. However, Iraq was also able to shrug off international fears adding 134,500 barrels a day to take its total production to 3.164 million barrels a day in September. Output rebounded due to higher exports from the south of the country and increased output from fields in Kurdistan, according to Reuters. Small wonder then that traders are panicking. Once again we have seen the difficulty markets face when trying to price in geopolitical risk. Unfortunately this works both ways — widespread overconfidence about price rises can quickly become overconfidence in the likelihood of further price falls. As Goldman said in its note: If the market does go much lower, we could see the mirror image of what occurred in the 2000s in that lower deferred prices kill off supply growth and stimulate demand. SEE ALSO: These 6 Countries Will Be Screwed If Oil Prices Keep Falling Join the conversation about this story »


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Greece’s Toothless Corruption Clampdown

ATHENS – Buried deep in the text of laws, such as the “Measures of Support and Growth for the Greek Economy” passed in March, are provisions that grant immunity from future corruption to thousands of workers in state-funded organizations, the New York Times reported. Parliament has conducted this practice – slipping such measures into complex […] The post Greece’s Toothless Corruption Clampdown appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece Negotiating Credit Line as Shield After Bonds Fall

Greece is negotiating with its international creditors over a possible precautionary credit line that would be available should market borrowing costs spike after the nation exits its rescue program, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said today. Samaras spoke ...


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Pig’s head, hate slogans at Athens Muslim center

AP – Greek police say unknkown attackers have placed a severed pig’s head and painted anti-Muslim slogans outside an Islamic studies center in Athens. Nobody has been arrested over the pre-dawn attack Friday, at a building that also functions as a Muslim prayer center. The attackers sprayed an obscene slogan against Islam on the sidewalk outside the building, daubed a Christian cross on the door and threw paint at the walls. The attack was discovered by worshippers going to Friday prayers. Bigotry targeting Jews and Muslims has increased in Greece in recent years, which also saw the meteoric rise of a Nazi-inspired far-right party. Golden Dawn entered Parliament in 2012, but all its lawmakers now face trial for running a criminal organization that used violence to spread and impose its beliefs. © 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Live music, dancing, food and shopping at Greek Fest

(WALA) – It's day two of Greek Fest at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox ... Live music will be played throughout the day accompanied by Greek ...


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Worshipers find pig's head, hate slogans at Muslim prayer center in Greece

Greek police say unknown attackers have placed a severed pig's head and painted anti-Muslim slogans outside an Islamic studies center in Athens.


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Unknown vandals leave pig's head, hate slogans outside Islamic studies center in Greece

Greek police say unknkown attackers have placed a severed pig's head and painted anti-Muslim slogans outside an Islamic studies center in Athens.


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Fordham University is Now a Beacon of Hellenism and Orthodoxy

NEW YORK – The Greek American Behavioral Sciences Institute (GABSI) presented George Demacopoulos, PhD, co-Founder of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University for a discussion of the way the Centers explores Hellenic and Orthodox heritage “within the context of a vigorous intellectual environment,” at Holy Trinity Cathedral on October 10. Tom Mallios, the […] The post Fordham University is Now a Beacon of Hellenism and Orthodoxy appeared first on The National Herald.


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Riace Warriors and priceless artefacts shed light on Greek history

THERE are a few places in the world — and many of them are in Italy — that are worth visiting for one or two buildings, sculptures or paintings. The most extreme case is perhaps the little Tuscan village of Monterchi, notable only for having a ...


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Greek pop star Mihalis Hatzigiannis performs with MSO

Back in his native Cyprus (and adopted Greece), Mihalis Hatzigiannis is a household name. In Melbourne, the pop star enjoys his relative anonymity.


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Greece says talking to lenders on post-bailout credit line

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Friday said his government is in talks with lenders over the country's post-bailout period, including a potential credit line Athens could tap in case of market turmoil. "It has been clear from Greece's side that we don't need a new bailout," Samaras said in a statement. "In any case, we all agree that Greece will stick to the path of ...


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