WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH OUR Bringing the news READERS A JOYOUS to generations of CHRISTMAS The National Herald Greek Americans c v A WEEKLY GREEK AMERICAN PUBLICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 14, ISSUE 689 December 25-31 , 2010 $1.50 Greece’s 2011 Austerity Budget Promises More Pain, Sacrifice for Greeks

Papandreou Gets His Way, Moves to Quiet His Critics, and Stifle Dissent in PASOK

ATHENS – After five days of de - The most painful measures are bate that didn’t change a vote – behind us,” Papandreou added despite some grumbling by law - minutes before the final vote. makers in the ruling PASOK “We will do whatever it takes to party- the Greek Parliament ap - succeed. We will change this proved a 2011 budget that country.” He also said it’s wrong slashes spending and hikes to point the finger of criticism at taxes again, freezes pensions the Troika. “Much of the blame and plans cuts in the debt-laden for the current situation the state-run enterprises, such as country is in does not belong the railways. The blueprint for with our international lenders more sacrifices for public but is rooted in past misman - workers was met with more agement, and we have to recog - strikes, including a 24-hour nize and change that,” Papan - shutdown of all public trans - dreou said. “I continue to fight portation, but pale demonstra - for the country without consid - tions as only a few hundred pro - erations of political cost, and testers stood outside the Parlia - my three objectives are to avoid ment and yelled “Thieves” bankruptcy, stabilize the econo - while debate was going on, a my and implement necessary sign of the bitter resentment by restructuring reforms to many Greeks that their lives are promote growth and employ - being reduced while the rich ment,” said Papandreou, who and politicians are living above added that, “We will exhaust all the fray. Workers at the state- opportunities to assist society’s run gaming company OPAP, for worst hit by the crisis and the example, were reported to be measures as soon as possible.” getting 6 ½ months of bonus He came under stinging attack pay in addition to their monthly from some members of his TNH/COSTAS BEJ salaries, while public workers, party, who described the budget Greek Christmas in Astoria with the Pancyprian Choir who had been receiving two ex - as “not credible,” “not Socialist” tra months bonuses, saw those and “unfair.” But none dared The Pancyprian Choir presented their annual Christmas concert December 18. Christmas hymns and holiday carols were sung slashed up to 40%. The budget under the direction of Constantinos Yiannoudes on Saturday, at Astoria’s beautiful Church of St. Catherine's and St. George. was approved after midnight, Continued on page 9 long after protesters shouting “We can’t take it anymore,” had left. Prime Minister George Pa - A Nod to Ataturk, Boutaris’ New Epoch Begins pandreou said the budget – an - Elias Kazan: tithetical to his Socialist PASOK principles – was necessary as By Sylvia Klimaki election in November he imme - righteous anger in Greeks and tinople as tourists and give Turk - conditions imposed by the Eu - Man in a TNH Staff Writer diately found himself those in the Diaspora – were ish people money by visiting ropean Union-International backpedaling from a report he misplaced and that no memorial their country.” That little politi - Monetary Fund-European Cen - THESSALONIKI - “I am not a wanted to build a memorial to will be built, but that Ataturk’s cal firestorm briefly overshad - tral Bank Troika that has lent Box, With politician. I will never become Turkish statesman Mustafa Ke - house stands as an attraction for owed his victory that, with his the country $146 billion over one.” That’s what Yiannis mal Ataturuk, under whose visitors that will be open. “No - fellow Socialist George Kaminis three years to prevent bank - Boutaris, 68, from a famous reign as an army officer Greeks body can deny history and Ke - in Athens, made it the first two ruptcy and default, and to cut His Films wine making family, was quick were driven out of Asia Minor mal Atatürk massacred thou - in 24 years their party held the the deficit from 15.1% at its to point out in an interview, and thousands killed and the sands of Greeks, and we should leadership of both cities at the worst last year, to 3% by the stressing that his professional Greek city of Smyrna burned never forget history but his same time. It was quite a tri - end of 2013, although Greece By Constantine S. Sirigos experience running a business – and civilians massacred. Ataturk house that is located in Thessa - umph for a man whose family may need more time to repay TNH Staff Writer and background as an environ - was born in Thessaloniki, also loniki should be open to visitors. is one of the best known in the loans, perpetuating mental activist – make him the known as Salonika, in 1881, We have nothing to be afraid of. Greece’s crowded field of winery economic problems for workers NEW YORK – Elia Kazan, one of right fit for Greece’s second- and Boutaris said the reports of Let the Turks come in Greece and pensioners. “I will change America’s greatest screen and largest city, although after his a memorial – which fired up and visit like we go to Constan - Continued on page 9 Greece, and we will not default. stage directors, created some of the most powerful images of American life in the late 20th Century. But the great image- maker remains an enigma in Patriarchate Suspends Paisios the America where he arrived from Constantinople at the age of 4. With someone as complex and Vikentios Indefinitely as Kazan, there may be no rem - edy, but fans can at least immerse themselves in the films By Theodore Kalmoukos other Sacred Services of the he created. An 18-DVD boxed TNH Staff Writer Church. This decision was set of his films titled The Elia reached during an emergency Kazan collection has just been BOSTON - The Ecumenical Pa - meeting of the members of the released which prompted triarchate has levied the canoni - Hierarchy residing in Constan - writer John Lahr to take a close cal punishment of an indefinite tinople. Sources told The Na - look at Kazan with a Critic At suspension upon Metropolitan tional Herald that Ecumenical Pa - Large piece titled Method Man: Paisios of Tyana and Bishop triarch Bartholomew plans on Elia Kazan’s Singular Career in Vikentios of Apameia, meaning revisiting the issue involving the the December 13 edition of The that the two hierarchs are forbid - Patriarchal and Stravropegial New Yorker. The DVD set in - den from celebrating the Divine Monastery of St. Irene Chryso - cludes what Lahr calls director Liturgy, holy sacraments, and any valantou in Astoria, N.Y. and its “Martin Scorcese’s artful and former leadership during the next heartfelt recent documentary meeting of the Holy Synod at the homage ‘A Letter to Elia’ which Phanar, which is scheduled for describes Kazan’s transition January 9, 2011. from journeyman to studio di - Is There a As has been reported by TNH, rector then to filmmaker.” Lahr the Ecumenical Patriarchate and says, “The movies are a treasure the entire Greek American Com - trove of defining cultural mo - Place for munity have been rocked by the ments, among the a revolution scandalous allegations, which in film acting (Brando); the came to light at the St. Irene finest filmed version of an Aristotle? Monastery this past fall. During American drama (Tennessee its previous meeting, the Holy William’s A Streetcar Named Synod decided to accept the res - Desire); an iconic By Constantine S. Sirigos ignation submitted by Metropol - representation of teen-age re - TNH Staff Writer itan Paisios, while also asking bellion (East of Eden) and the Bishop Vikentios to resign from first compelling onscreen NEW YORK – In a modern his post as well as Deputy Abbot, EUROKINISSI account of the immigrant’s jour - world driven sometimes more which he subsequently did. Af - Greece gets state-of-the-art submarine ney to the New World (America by greed than anything else, is terward, it named Bishop Ilia of America). there a place for the ancient Philomelion as acting Abbot. The hydrogen powered new Greek submarine “Papanikolas” in the naval ship yard in Piraeus Kazan, whose last name was ideals of philosophers such as Bishop Ilia arrived at the as it was finally delivered after a near decade delay in one of the biggest defense budget fiascos changed from Kazanjoglous, Aristotle and those who praised monastery on Dec. 17 and offici - in the long history of expensive military hardware for Greece’s arsenal. and has been described as “one concepts such as ethics that fed ated at this hierarchical Divine of the most honored and influ - the soul instead of filled the Liturgy on Sunday, December 19 ential directors in Broadway pocket? Nadia Urbinati, the at St. Irene’s church in Astoria. Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor The announcement made by Continued on page 6 of Political Theory and Hellenic the Ecumenical Patriarchate Antsaklis Knows How Things Work Studies at Columbia University, reads as follows: “It is hereby an - made the case for Aristotle’s nounced that the Hierarchs of the way in the annual Kyriakos Throne in our City gathered for By Natalie Bakopoulos lites, computers, and the Inter - heart of the discipline of systems WITH THIS ISSUE Tsakopoulos Lecture, Aristotle an extraordinary session today, Special to The National Herald net — have undeniably changed and control in general — lies and the Moderns, at the Low Li - December 17, 2010, and revis - the way we live. But it’s not just the mechanism of feedback, a brary of Columbia University ited the issue which has arisen at Many engineers develop a the application of research that mechanism prevalent not only on, Dec. 9, and although his the Patriarchal and Stravropegial fascination with how things interests Antsaklis but the in engineered systems but in views have powerful modern Monastery of St. Irene Chryso - work at an early age, and this process of investigation. A good physical, biological, economic, detractors, the lecture proved at valantou in Astoria, New York, was certainly the case for Panos researcher must have imagina - and social systems as well. Feed - least one Greek talking about unanimously arriving at the de - Antsaklis, the H. Clifford and tion and vision; a good engineer back, to put it simply, corrects ethics is still scoring points, cision to suspend indefinitely Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of must be able to make the vision for uncertainty. Feedback con - even if he’s not alive. both Metropolitan Paisios of Electrical Engineering at the a reality. As a research engineer, trol methods are used to regu - Urbinati used the writings of Tyana, former Abbot of the University of Notre Dame. The Antsaklis points out, he must be late the temperature of our another 19th Century philoso - Monastery, and Bishop Vikentios young Antsaklis often disassem - able to do both; he must have homes and the cruise control in pher, Nietzsche, to describe the of Apameia, its former Deputy bled clocks, bicycles, and elec - his feet firmly on the ground our cars; they allow a plane to Abbot, from every clerical func - trical appliances; he was not while still being able to gaze out run on autopilot. Physiologi - Continued on page 5 tion. At the Ecumenical Patriar - only interested in how things at the horizon. cally, feedback control mecha - chate, the 17th of December work but how they might work At Notre Dame, where he has nisms maintain our blood pres - 2010. - From the Chief Secre - better. This attention, not only taught since 1980, he focuses sure and blood glucose levels. tariat of the Holy and Sacred to analysis but also to synthesis, on problems of control and au - Biomedically, feedback control For subscription: Synod. seems key to a career in engi - tomation and examines ways in methods allow for the use of 718.784.5255 Previously, Paisios had been neering research. For Antsaklis, which engineering systems can electrical nerve signals to con - [email protected] given “ecclesiastical leniency” and engineering is interesting be - be designed to autonomously trol prosthetic limbs. Because allowed to retire, but TNH re - cause of its tremendous impact perform useful tasks and the many feedback control systems ported subsequently that Bishop on our everyday lives. After all, theory that needs to be devel - are hidden, or embedded in Vikentios made shocking charges the products of engineering — oped to address them. At the computers, Antsaklis notes, the from electric power, telephones, heart of such systems with high- Continued on page 5 automobiles, airplanes, satel - degree autonomy — and at the Continued on page 4 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 25-31, 2010

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n DECEMBER du Feu and arts and crafts will ASTORIA, N.Y. – The Hellenic be available for children. Prices Cultural Center is hosting the are: $95 for adults, which in - famous Greek musical, OPA! cludes open bar and a 3 course The Musical is a romantic com - dinner and $45 for children un - edy set on the tiny Greek island der 12 which includes dinner of Elia - a place where time only. Tickets will not be sold at stands still. Sophia and Manos the door. To purchase tickets, dream of bigger lives off the is - contact: Peter Panagiotopoulos land, but Costa is quite content at: (416) 887-1601; Rita to stay on the island of his birth Valasiadis at: (416) 817-3413 and continue with his simple, or email: messini - olive-filled life. After it’s an - [email protected]. nounced that their island will For further information, visit: be dumped from the ferry routes www.panmessinian-toronto.org. until the economy levels out, these characters make desperate Jn ANUARY 8 choices which will alter the TARPON SPRINGS, Fl. – Tarpon Lowell, Mass. AHEPA Chapter 102 Initiation course of their lives forever. Springs Cultural Treasures pre - Tickets are $25 and dinner sents an evening of lively music Standing (L) Peter Kalogerakos. Front Row(sitting) President packages are available. Perfor - and dance from the Dodecanese Steven C. Michaelides; District 8 Gov. John A. Tanionos’ TNH/COSTAS BEJ mances will be held on Fridays Islands of Greece. Feature musi - Supreme Gov. Kip Kyprianou; District 8 Lt. Gov. Frank P. Fotis; In the Name of St. Nicholas at 8:00 p.m.; Saturdays at 3:00 cians are, Kalymnian violin Chapter 102 Vice-President George Christopulos. (Standing and 8:00 p.m.; and Sundays at player, Michalis Kappas, who Right) Paul Panagopoulos, James Vergados, Costantine Tsioulis. Father Frank Marangos, Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy 3:00 p.m. The Hellenic Cultural will journey from Greece to join Second row (L-R) James Vergados, Christos Kotsironis, Perry Trinity in Manhattan, reminded his community about the life Center is located at: 27-09 Cres - Laouto musician, Panayotis Mourtzinos, James Murphy, John Tripodis, Dylan Archambault, and works of St. Nicholas in a special Family St. Nicholas Cel - cent Street, Astoria, NY. For League in playing nisiotika, the John Faneros. Third row (L-R) John Grillakis, John Apostle, ebration on December 10, 2010. The house of worship is the reservations, call: (718) 626- music of the Aegean Islands. Dr. Ioanis Panagiotopoulos, Theodore Panagiotopoulos, only Church in the Western hemisphere housing relics of St. 5111. For further information, Performing with them will be Nicholas Theokas. Nicholas. visit: www.opathemusical.com. Tarpon Springs' Tsabouna player, Skevos Karavokiros and tradi - n DECEMBER – JANUARY 3 tional vocalist, Irene Kara - NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Onassis vokiros. The event is supported Cultural Center explores the in part by grants from the Na - In the Spotlight: Stacy Matseas: She Hugs role of heroes in society in the tional Endowment for the Arts, exhibition, Heroes: Mortals and SouthArts, the Sister Cities Com - Myths in Ancient Greece, on mittee of Tarpon Springs and the By Angelike Contis ing Strides Against Breast Can - view in Manhattan from Octo - Kalymnian Society. The event TNH Staff Writer cer in San Diego. ber 5, 2010 to January 3, 2011. will be held at the Kalymnian TNH: Can you say a few The exhibition is supported by House from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. NEW YORK – “Meet Stacy, The words about Stacy’s Circle of an indemnity from the Federal Tickets are $5. Hors d’ouveres Woman behind the Hug” reads Friends? Council on the Arts and Human - and drinks will be served. The extraordinarily successful non - SM: Everyone is eligible to ities. Highlights of the exhibition Kalymnian House is located at: profit fundraiser Stacy Matseas’ be in the “Circle.” If people give include a bronze Corinthian hel - 42 W. Morgan St., Tarpon website. That is – if you can of their time or treasure to the met from 700-500 B.C.; a black- Springs, Fl. For more informa - catch her. When she isn’t Mission of the American Cancer figure amphora depicting tion, call: (727) 937-1130 or fundraising for her favorite Society, they are IN! Others Achilles and Ajax playing a visit: www.tarponarts.org. Tar - causes, she’s traveling the sometimes do their own board game outside Troy (late pon Springs Cultural Treasures, world. In 2010 she hit Antarc - fundraising, participate in sixth century B.C.); a black-fig - PO Box 5004, Tarpon Springs, tica and South America. Now events and help me to get the ure column krater (c. 510 B.C.) Florida 34689. Telephone: (727) she’s in Australia. Matseas is cer - job done of being the #1 Na - depicting Odysseus escaping 942-5605. tainly hug-worthy. The San tional Fundraiser for Making from the cave of the Cyclops Diego resident has been the top Strides Against Breast Cancer. Polyphemos; and a gold medal - n JANUARY 9 national fundraising volunteer TNH: What is the key to rais - lion with the bust of Alexander OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. - The for the American Cancer Soci - ing money for good causes in the Great (c. 218-235 A.D.; Greek Women's University Club ety’s (ACS) Making Strides tough times? among many more. Guided is hosting a special Annual Schol - Against Breast Cancer event for SM: Be passionate and per - tours of the exhibition will be arship Luncheon, “Celebrating several years. Since being moti - severant. Set high goals, invite offered to the public every Tues - 80 Years of Greek Women's Uni - vated to help out in 2000 after everyone to participate, offer day and Thursday at 1:00 p.m. versity Club - Promoting the Arts, her childhood friend, Victoria, options as to how, share your Tours can also be organized Culture, and Education," at Mike was diagnosed with the disease, story, follow up, and be grateful upon request for school groups. Ditka's Restaurant on January 9 she has personally raised for every dollar. I’m passionate A comprehensive brochure will at 12:00 p.m. Guest speaker will $807,000. Her team, a/k/a. about what I do. Most people also be offered free to visitors. be NBC Channel 5 Reporter Kim Stacy’s Circle of Friends, has are aware of the significance of For additional information, con - Vatis. The Restaurant is located raised more than $1,146,000 so cancer in our society; I am just tact: Lillian Goldenthal at (212) at: Two Mid America Plaza far. the facilitator of how they can 593-6355 or email: golden - (22nd St & Rte 83), Oakbrook She often speaks on behalf make a difference in the future [email protected]. Terrace, IL. It will be $45 per of the ACS CA Division Board of of the disease. I support many person. For further information, Directors, having served on its San Diego-based Stacy Matseas (L) is the woman who's raised organizations, but I take special n DECEMBER 29 contact: Maria Kallis at: (630) board and been awarded its the most for the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Making care to support areas such as NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Rubin 455-1688. 2006 Volunteer of the Year Strides Against Breast Cancer event the last few years. She's mental illness, juvenile diabetes, Museum of Art presents the Award for San Diego County. personally raised over $800,000 since 2000.She's pictured here child abuse prevention pro - George Stathos Trio on Decem - n JANUARY 12 In October 2010, Stacy was with her childhood friend, breast cancer survivor Victoria (last grams, multiple sclerosis and ber 29 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. This NEW YORK, NY – The Hellenic named StayClassy’s San Diego name not available.) the San Diego Woman’s Foun - free concert features George American Bankers Association in Volunteer of the Year. She’s also dation. Stathos, a native New Yorker collaboration with the Hellenic a Road to Recovery driver (dri - SM: I was raised in New Eng - including Road to Recovery & TNH: Can you say a few and third generation Greek America Chamber of Commerce, ving cancer patients to/from land and have spent the later Relay for Life, as well as Making words about travel? American, on clarinet, Saki the Hellenic Medical Society, the treatment,) Daffodil Days vol - half of my life in San Diego. I’m Strides Against Breast Cancer. I SM: Do a lot of it! I generally Antonopoulos on bouzouki and Hellenic Lawyers Association unteer and is actively involved from Lowell, Massachusetts. It am a proud member of the San travel for pleasure. I prefer to vocals, and Thanasis Gianoutsos and the Cyprus-U.S. Chamber of in Relay for Life. was cold - so I followed the sun Diego Women’s Foundation, and generally do travel with one on accordion. The Museum's Commerce, are hosting their tra - Matseas embarked on volun - and ended up in San Diego. It’s support many local charities and or two people (different peo - current exhibit, which features ditional cutting of the Vasilopita teering and travel after leaving a great place to be. I retired enjoy networking with other ple.) But sometimes I end up on the art of Orthodox Christian event at the Holy Trinity Cathe - telecommunications research from a 15-year career as Direc - philanthropists in hopes to my own for a bit. I volunteer and Buddhist iconography is ti - dral Hall on January 12 from and development company tor of Stock Plan Administration make a difference, together. hard and play hard. I have been tled: "Embodying the Holy: Icons 6:30-8:30 p.m. There will be a QUALCOMM in 2003. Today, for QUALCOMM. And, I love hugs. fortunate enough to travel to in Eastern Orthodox Christianity wine and meze reception. The she is happy to report: “Victoria I now volunteer full time (or TNH: What inspired you to many parts of the world and and Tibetan Buddhism." The Ru - event is free for members and is now a 10-year survivor, and as full-time as I choose to.) I become so involved in Making look forward to more opportu - bin Museum is located at 150 $40 for non-members. Visit: while she has had some scares, mostly spend my time with ac - Strides? nities to do so. The world is my West 17 Street at 7th Avenue in haba20110112.eventbrite.com, she has not had any additional tivities with the American Can - SM: In 2000, I received the oyster, so I am open to traveling Manhattan. For further informa - to register. Holy Trinity Cathe - diagnosis. Every day is a con - cer Society. I enjoyed a great ca - news from my childhood friend, almost anywhere, especially if tion, visit: www.rmanyc.org or dral Hall is located at: 337 East cern, but she is doing very well.” reer in San Diego but my Victoria, that she had breast someone else will plan the trip. call: (212) 620-5000. 74th Street, Between 1st & 2nd Here are some of Matseas’ passion became volunteering, so cancer. I felt totally and com - TNH: Do you have any role Avenues, New York, NY 10021. thoughts on a life of volun - in 2003, I focused on that full- pletely helpless, I had to act! A models? n DECEMBER 31 teerism. time. I serve in a variety of roles friend told me to look for the SM: I have many role mod - NEW PORT RICHEY, Fl. – St. FEBRUARY 19-20 TNH: Tell us about yourself. for the American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society’s Mak - els. My parents have been key George’s New Year’s Eve Dinner NASSAU, Bahamas – The Greek role models. My mother forges and Dance will be held on De - Orthodox Church in Nassau is through each day with faith, cember 31 at St. George’s Greek hosting their annual Greek Fes - hope and peace and she is the Orthodox Church from 7:00 tival on February 19-20. Enjoy kindest person I know. My fa - p.m.-1:00 a.m. The party will a variety of mouth-watering tra - ther, who passed away in 2004, feature Florida’s top Greek ditional Greek foods, Greek beer would also have given anyone band, Ellada with Dino Theofi - and an assortment of delicious the shirt of his back. Other role los, Elias Poulos and Georgos Greek pastries. There will be models are those who suffer and Soffos. The dinner will include, an ouzeri and kafenio on turn that suffering into helping hors d’oeuvres, a prime rib din - Church grounds, as well as, others and themselves and peo - ner, champagne and vasilopita. cooking demonstrations. There ple who give most generously Space is limited and tickets will will also be a live bouzouki band and make sacrifices to do so. not be sold at the door. Tickets and traditional Greek dancing. TNH: What is your greatest for Adults are $50.00 and Entrance fees are: $3 for adults achievement thus far? What do $25.00 for children 12 & under. and $1 for children. Festival you hope to achieve in the fu - To RSVP, call: Koula Mitchel at: hours are: February 19 at 11:00 ture? (727) 844-0620. a.m. and February 20 from SM: I’ve raised over 12:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. The fes - $800,000 in the fight against TORONTO, Canada – The Pan - tival will be located at the Greek cancer and am the #1 National messinian Association of Orthodox Church Grounds on Fundraising for the American Toronto “Papaflessas-Ipapanti,” West Street, Nassau, Bahamas. Cancer Society’s Making Strides is hosting their New Years Eve Against Breast Cancer, but I feel Celebration on December 31 at n NOTE TO OUR READERS my greatest achievement is in - The Grand Luxe Event Boutique This calendar of events section spiring others to excel at some - at 7:00 p.m. Cocktails begin at is a complimentary service to thing they are passionate about 7:00 p.m. followed by dinner at the Greek American community. and in the future I hope that we 7:30 p.m. There will be an open All parishes, organizations and find a cure for cancer and many bar for adults and a Champagne institutions are encouraged to other diseases. toast at Midnight. Opa Opa DJ e-mail their information regard - TNH: What part of Greece or services will be playing a variety ing the event 3-4 weeks ahead Cyprus are you from? Do you of Greek and English music of time, and no later than Mon - visit often? throughout the night. There day of the week before the SM: My father was born in will also be a spectacular silk event, to english.edition@then - the U.S. but had roots in Sparta. aerial performance by Femmes ationalherald.com I’ve not yet visited Greece; let’s plan a trip! TNH: What are some upcom - ing projects/events we can look QUESTION OF THE WEEK forward to? SM: When I return from Aus - Vote on our website! tralia and New Zealand, I’ll see where the area of greatest needs You have the chance to express your opinion on our website exist until the 2011 Making on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - Strides season. lished in our printed edition next week along with the question TNH: Share with us some for that week. words of wisdom. The question this week is: Should Greece support the build - SM: Take every step with ing of mosques in Athens? purpose and passion. Share love o Yes and hugs freely. o No TNH: Anything else you’d o Maybe like to add? 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Continued from page 1 ticular patient. And because it’s imperative to acknowledge much of this information was not those advancements that have concept is often referred to as available in Greek, he also taught undoubtedly stood the test of stealth technology. himself French, English, and time. And evidence of one Although such automatic some German in order to read stands right in the center of control systems have countless the required medical books and Athens, in its ancient agora, a modern-day applications, the journals. Perhaps this dedication place Antsaklis frequently visits first such systems were devel - to learning and its immediate rel - when in Athens. The Tower of oped more than 2,000 years evance was impressed upon Winds, or Horologium (from the ago. The first feedback control Antsaklis at a young age, for his Greek horologion, or time - device on record was developed own work combines both theory piece,) is a combination of a in the Third Century B.C., in and application. wind vane, sundial and water Alexandria, by the Greek engi - His father’s dedication and clock. It is a large, octagonal neer and inventor Ktesibios. His sense of responsibility to the structure, and on each of its water clock, or clepsydra, incor - people of Kalamata was not only eight sides face points of the porated a feedback mechanism manifest in his late nights and compass. These sides are also that used a floating device as constant learning. He was a true decorated, in bas-relief, with fly - both a sensor and an actuator humanitarian and treated those ing figures of the corresponding (a mechanical device for moving who could not afford to pay for wind gods. Atop the tower sat a or controlling,) which kept the care, at no charge. And even wind vane in the form of a water level approximately con - now, decades later, when bronze Triton, which contained stant. This, in turn, ensured con - Antsaklis visits Kalamata with a water clock — Ktesibios’ in - stant water flow and, as a result, his family, the children of his fa - vention — to record time when accurate time keeping. And, ther’s patients recall his name the sundial could not. One of generally speaking, it’s this same and relay stories of his father’s the few standing, never-been system of precision and systems compassion. Though Antsaklis buried structures of antiquity, communication, this same con - became an engineer, medicine the Tower of Winds, was built cept of feedback, that lies at the did interest him. As a young boy, around 100–50 B.C. by Andron - core of Antsaklis’ work two mil - he spent much time at his fa - icus of Cyrrhus for the sheer lennia later. ther’s clinic. Before his father purpose of measuring time. GREEK THINKING began a surgery, the young And isn’t time always, as the Antsaklis was born and Antsaklis watched his father Antsaklis and his wife, Melinda Reese-Antsaklis, nderneath the Acropolis in front of the Irodio old adage goes, of the essence? raised in Kalamata, a harbor scrub his hands “up to the el - Theater (2008), where they enjoy attending performances. Antsaklis notes that measuring town of 50,000 people situated bows” for what seemed like an time accurately for long periods at the head of the Messinian Bay endless amount of time. Then, Antsaklis came to the United remember he and his family both economically and energy- was particularly difficult, and in the Peloponnese. His father, from behind a glass partition, States in 1972 for graduate have traveled to Greece each wise; they have the potential to the earliest calendars were Ioannis Antsaklis, a surgeon, he watched his father perform school, sponsored by the Ful - summer, visiting Kalamata, transform industry. For example, based on the lunar month and was not from Kalamata but a operations: appendectomies bright Foundation, to study con - where his daughter, Lily, now a cyber-physical technology can the later ones on the solar year. small town called Geraki, near that typically lasted 20 minutes, trol systems at Brown University sophomore at Heidelberg Uni - be applied to create faster-fly - But, to bring in mathematics, some done with only local anes - in Providence, Rhode Island. versity in Ohio, still meets with ing, energy-efficient aircrafts neither the lunar month nor the thesia, and plenty of bone set - While at Brown, he met his her childhood friends, many of and safer, more energy - and solar year, rather inconveniently, Having the vision to see tings. “I even watched a few wife-to-be, Melinda Reese- whom are sons and daughters what might be next on the Caesarian operations,” Antsaklis Antsaklis, who was then a grad - of her father’s own former class - says. In fact, friends and family uate student in Russian litera - mates. He also spends some horizon is fundamental to assumed that because of this in - ture. After completing his Ph.D., time in Athens, where his being a cutting-edge terest, the youngest Antsaklis he taught there for one year. He mother, Marina, lives, and would naturally become a doc - then was visiting professor at where he might visit the Benaki scientist tor; his two older brothers were Rice University in Houston and Museum and the Temple at already in medical school. In - lecturer at the Imperial College Sounion, attend a performance Sparti, in Lakonia, and raised in stead, the intense appeal of of the University of London be - at the Irodio Theater and enjoy Piraeus. In 1939, while his fa - mathematics and physics led fore taking a position, in 1980, an ouzo and the view of the ther was working at the Red him toward engineering. At the at the University of Notre Dame; Acropolis from the Dionysus Cross hospital in Athens, seem - age of 17, he took the national Melinda also taught there. He Cafe. His visits to Greece are ingly destined for an academic exams and did very well; if he has also held teaching and re - also professional in nature. He career, a friend suggested Dr. had enrolled in physics at the search sabbaticals at Massachu - often lectures at Greek univer - Antsaklis relocate to Kalamata University of Athens he would setts Institute of Technology, the sities, and he is the Founding to open a clinic and practice have entered first in rank. In - Imperial College and the Na - President of the Mediterranean surgery. And that he did. Soon stead, he enrolled in the very tional Technical University of Control Association. And after, World War II began, and competitive and esteemed Me - Athens. like most academics, Antsaklis doctors were in high demand. chanical and Electrical Engi - IT’S CYBERMAN! both teaches and conducts re - Ioannis Antsaklis served at the neering Department at the Na - Though he has been in the search. When asked if he finds front in Albania. When the oc - tional Technical University of States for 37 years, Antsaklis has that one pursuit enhances the cupation and the Greek civil war Athens (Athens Polytechnic,) a maintained close ties with other, he replies, “Yes, ab - ended, he had a growing family rigorous five-year program. Greece. For as long as he can solutely!” At Notre Dame he has and decided to remain in Kala - received numerous teaching Antsaklis’ wife, Melinda Reese-Antsaklis, and their daughter, mata, a very dear place to awards, such as the Kaneb Lily, relax on a beach in Kalamata in 1992. Antsaklis, not only because of Teaching Award for Excellence his family’s roots but because of in Undergraduate Teaching. He economically efficient homes consist of an integer number of its natural beauty and rich his - has also authored several books, and cars. It can help create high - days (the lunar month is ap - tory. He has fond memories of including a very well respected way systems that allow for proximately 29.50306 days; the Sunday day trips he took with graduate textbook on linear sys - dense traffic to operate more solar year, 365.24219 days.) his family: small, quaint towns tems. He has five graduate stu - safely, and it can be used to en - This problematic fact is partially of Methoni and Koroni with dents in his laboratory, students gineer more capable, finely why the Eastern and Western their medieval fortresses; the from all over the world. Partic - tuned defense systems. Christian churches celebrate town of Pylos on the west coast ularly because his own research TIME AND TIME AGAIN Easter at different times, an ex - of the Peloponnese, which is the is interdisciplinary in nature, Antsaklis notes he is not only tremely complicated matter that site of the famous Navarino sea and because systems and con - interested in improving upon Antsaklis, just for fun, has writ - battle during the Greek War of trol is a discipline that takes a what has already been created ten about in wonderful detail Independence and also the global point of view, he encour - but also on identifying what (http://www.nd.edu/~pantsakl Palace of Nestor; the ancient sta - ages his students not only to needs doing and finding a way /easter.htm.) And it’s this quest dium of Olympia; and Mani, participate in conferences and with all its untamed beauty. author scholarly papers, but also Many of his memories of to examine the full picture, to Kalamata, of course, involve his attend lectures in other subjects parents. His mother, Marina, was to further broaden their hori - involved with philanthropic or - zons. He said he believes that a ganizations, such as the orphan - leader should be multidimen - age and the Kalogries, the sional so to perceive all the com - monastery at Ypapanti. A beau - plexities of an issue: societal and tiful and intelligent woman, she ethical in addition to scientific was well informed about current and technical. events. “A great book reader,” Because Antsaklis said he be - Antsaklis says of her, “with ex - lieves not only in depth of cellent French, very cosmopoli - knowledge, but in its breadth, tan. And a great cook!” She in - it seems fitting that the work stilled in Antsaklis and his that currently excites him most brothers the importance of edu - involves the close integration of cation and often worked with the networked embedded comput - young boys as they completed ing systems and the physical their homework. She still lives in and biological worlds working Athens and remains the heart of together to achieve certain the family. When Antsaklis’ fa - goals. He says: “This is where ther was establishing his prac - software merges with the phys - tice, Kalamata did not have a tra - ical and biological worlds to cre - Antsaklis’ parents, Ioannis and Marina, on a family trip to ditional hospital, so his father’s ate systems that we never Paris in 1967. His mother still lives in Athens and remains the 40-bed clinic also served as the PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME thought would become a reality, center of the family. His father, a surgeon, opened a clinic in town’s emergency room. His fa - Dr. Panos Antsaklis, the H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Pro - from artificial limbs to novel Kalamata in 1939. ther worked very hard and very fessor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, spacecraft.” Such systems have late each night, yet he still man - focuses on problems of control and automation and ways in been termed “cyber-physical to implement it, so it comes as for knowledge, this desire not aged to research new surgical which engineering systems can be designed to exhibit a high systems” by the National Sci - no surprise that he’s a pioneer only to understand and discover methods, usually to treat a par - degree of autonomy in performing useful tasks. ence Foundation. A cyber-phys - in this relatively new field. For but to elegantly communicate ical system can be small, such Antsaklis — much like his fa - his understandings, that seems as that used in a pacemaker, or ther, a talented diagnostician to define him and his work. quite substantial, such as an air who anticipated and subse - traffic control system or the na - quently learned what surgical Natalie Bakopoulos is a lecturer tional power grid. methods he might need to help in the Department of English Cyber-physical systems can a patient — having the vision Language and Literature at the change the way we interact with to see what might be next on University of Michigan. Her first KRIKO S, Inc. the physical world. According to the horizon is fundamental to novel, The Green Shore, set in A CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC LINK WITH HELLENISM a report prepared by the Cyber- being a cutting-edge scientist. Athens during the military dic - Physical Systems Steering Yet even with all this forward- tatorship of 1967–1974, is due Headquarters: Astoria, NY Group (2008,) they can make looking research and technol - to be published by Simon & e-mail: [email protected] systems safer and more efficient, ogy, Antsaklis said he believes Schuster in 2012.

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By Constantine S. Sirigos tolled a depressing bell for St. feet above street level and diffi - TNH Staff Writer Nicholas with the headline: cult zoning and code issues in the “Clever Bureaucrats Engineer post-9/11 environment. NEW YORK – The efforts of St. Church Out of Ground Zero” and Couloucoundis said that he Nicholas Church – once at said of the move: “It may be the wouldn’t go as far as Cunha in Ground Zero - and the Greek Or - most despicably brilliant feat of calling the Post’s reports thodox Archdiocese of America engineering since the Panama “baloney.” Informing TNH that to get the Port Authority of New Canal ... as the agency and its he is a mechanical engineer, he York and New Jersey to honor an contractors at Ground Zero ap - said that his professional intu - agreement to rebuild the Church pear to have designed the church ition tells him that adding the ad - destroyed in the attacks of Sept. right off the site.” Asked by the ditional steel that would be re - 11, 2011 at 130 Liberty street has New York Post to comment on quired to support a mere received a jolt in reports that the what their sources have said three-story structure should not site may be unbuildable. On De - about the130 Liberty Street Site, be a problem. “I think they are cember 6, the Archdiocese and PA spokesman John Kelly said: trying to discourage us,” with the Church served notice of their “Designs are complete and con - what the PA is saying to the press, intention to sue the PA along with tracts have been awarded (for but he affirmed “I’m not going to several other entities over delays the VSC) that assume a church be discouraged. The bottom line in the rebuilding of St. Nicholas. structure on the original site, 155 is what is said to the press is ir - But a week later the New York Cedar St.” So it appears that the relevant, the facts will come out,” Post reported that the Church PA is pushing the Church - for in court. “might need a prayer before the reasons that have never been In response to the charges of case even goes to court.” He given and cannot be deduced by bad faith on the part of the PA wrote that that “the steel the PA observers - to return to 155 that were included in the recent has already ordered for the Vehi - Cedar Street. legal notice, Couloucounids cle Screening Center to be built THEY’RE NOT HAPPY stated bluntly: “Why talk to the beneath 130 Liberty St. can’t sup - John Couloucoundis, Presi - press and not talk to us? Why not port the church structure which TNH/COSTAS BEJ dent of the St. Nicholas Parish show us the drawings and tell us the archdiocese wants to erect Archbishop Demetrios speaks after vesper services at Ground Zero for St. Nicholas. Seen in Council, said, “We are taking about the plans. If you are trying above it, engineering sources background are: NY Assemblywoman-elect Aravella Simotas, Cypriot Consul General Koula everything coming out of the Port to work in good faith why not said.” The article noted: “Not only Sophianou, NY State Senators-elect Michael Gianaris and Tony Avella, Stefanos Tserpelis and Authority with an immense grain communicate with us directly in - the amount of steel which the PA AHEPA Supreme President Nicholas Karacostas. of salt. We don’t believe that any - stead of through the press,” as - ordered over a year ago, but also thing being said now has any serting that, “We are not going the way it’s being fabricated to of dollars to costs and set every - something.” Cunha, a partner at there never was a deal (for 130 more veracity than anything else away and we will keep you (the house the underground ‘helix,’ is thing at Ground Zero back by two Simpson Thacher & Bartlett told Liberty Street) and that the draw - that has come from them in the PA) to your original word.” Shift - inadequate to hold up the church more years, and Larry Silverstein The National Herald that “The ings don’t provide for a church past couple of years, adding, “I ing focus to parish life, ... according to our sources, the (owner of the former World PA has known since 2004 there there, but the opposite is true. wouldn’t be surprised if they are Couloucoundis announced that way the VSC has been designed Trade Center and new building would be a church at 130 Liberty There was extensive planning.” trying to fight a war in the me - they intend to hold annual beneath 130 Liberty St. now being erected on that site) would Street. They have prepared sets He said “It’s possible there is a dia.” Asked by TNH if he thinks Epiphany Services at Battery Park makes it impossible to construct have new grounds to blame the of architectural, engineering and new set of plans but if so, they the purpose of the PA’s tactics is (near the Statue of Liberty Boats) the church, which the archdiocese (PA) for not completing infra - structural drawings which show have never showed them to us.” to get them to quickly agree to “Where for many years we have hopes to compel the PA to help it structure on time.” the build out will proceed at 130 Asked if the agency has agreed accept a return to 155 Cedar held the annual dive for the cross build and partly fund.” The Post quoted Mark Cunha, Liberty Street.” Cuhna, who also to sit down and work out the Street, Couloucoundis said, “That in the frigid waters of the Hud - An engineering source not af - a lawyer for the Archdiocese, told TNH that the PA in 2009 matters, Cunha said there has location was never considered son, on January 9, as we typically filiated with the PA or the arch - that, “It sounds like baloney ... suddenly disavowed the agree - been “No contact from the PA at feasible,” and he said PA employ - do it the first Sunday after diocese told the Post, “It’s over. They didn’t order enough steel, ment it had reached with the all. All we know is what we see ees they worked with on the Epiphany.” To redesign the VSC and re-order order more steel. Anybody in lit - Church, said, “In their statement in the press.” plans acknowledged that, given steel would add tens of millions igation can say they can’t do to the New York Post they imply The New York Observer also that the site would now be 30 [email protected] Patriarchate Suspends Metropolitan Paisios and Bishop Vikentios Indefinitely

Continued from page 1 has been a close associate of Met - to his information, the former the Patriarchal Exarchy in the Legal Corporation of the Chryso - which he said could result in the ropolitan Paisios for 40 years and nun had been pregnant but did room of Metropolitan Paisios and valantou Monastery, both interim arrest of Metropolitan Evangelos about Paisios’ tenure at the co-founder of the Monastery, out - not know by whom. Simultane - that he also sold the golden of - Abbots appointed by the Ecu - by the police. Bishop Vikentios monastery, including allegations lined a tale of sex and other al - ously, Bishop Vikentios asked “for - ferings known as tamata of the menical Patriarchate, Metropoli - also said that the money delivered about sexual activities involving leged wrongdoings. In the inter - giveness from the victims’ of faithful at the Monastery’s Greek tan Evangelos of New Jersey and by the former nun Christonymphi young men and women and miss - view at TNH’s headquarters in Paisios,” at least one of whom, festival, also taking much of the Bishop Elias of Philomilion, are to the Astoria Police Station he ing cash belonging to the church. Long Island City, N.Y. Bishop Andreas Georgiou, is already gold to Greece, which was melted considered illegal. believes belongs to the Monastery Paisios had submitted his resig - Vikentios made revelations of al - launching a lawsuit against the and made hierarchical crosses Vikentios said he believes that and not Paisios. He also talked nation in October and moved leged serious excesses by the Met - Monastery and the Ecumenical and pictorials. Bishop Vikentios the Monastery will be driven into about the role of a man identified back to Greece, to Athens. Among ropolitan, including that he was Patriarchate. Other alleged vic - alleged that even his own life is bankruptcy due to economic de - as Konstantinos B., said to have other things, Vikentios alleged involved with people of both tims are expected to follow. at risk. He stated that based on cline, and called Metropolitan uncovered the scandal, and who that the Metropolitan sexually sexes, including the young nun, TNH contacted the Metropol - the Charter granted by the Ecu - Evangelos’ behavior toward him allegedly also participated in abused the Bishop’s brother, Spy - Christonymphi, who now has itan by phone in Athens, but he menical Patriarchate to the as “completely unbecoming” group sex events with Metropoli - ros Malamatenios, who was 17 given up the Monastic vows and hung up and refused to talk. Chrysovalantou Monastery, and upon Evangelos’ coming to his tan Paisios. The man was said to at the time. In a long interview talked to the police. Bishop Viken - Bishop Vikentios confirmed re - also according to New York residence at the church of St. Nec - have given that testimony to the with TNH earlier, Vikentios, who tios also revealed that, according ports that a gun was found by State’s regulations governing the tarios in Brooklyn, on Dec. 6, police and the FBI

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Continued from page 1 than any other in Kazan. It 1952 was his second appear - Communist party circles, that would be valuable for someone ance before HUAC. Kazan did action was not really a sin, and and Hollywood history,” who to examine why Skouras felt not name names when he was is it ever shameful or despica - also produced, and wrote compelled to throw Kazan into first called, so he did not turn ble? Is it a sin in America, with screenplays and novels, contin - the lions den, but still the glad - in his former friends in a knee- its hundreds of religious splinter ues be framed, if not defined, iator is the one in the spotlight jerk impulse to preserve his ca - groups, to become a non-be - by his actions on one day in his here. He was infinitely more se - reer. Even Tennessee Williams, liever or to shift allegiances? life, April 10, 1952, when he cure in his mother relationship, who Lahr called “his most un - Isn’t it worse to pretend to be a “named names” during his sec - which impacts men’s lives both derstanding friend,” may have believer. What hold do the re - ond appearance before the in - in their objects of love, and the gotten it wrong. Williams said maining believers have on such famous House Un-American Ac - groups they belong to or are he “refused to condemn Kazan’s a man. Kazan’s answer was tivities Committee (HUAC) of drawn to. So he expected his pragmatic choice because hu - clear: none. U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. wife to forgive his infidelities, man venality is always some - Kazan seemed to see his ac - The people he cited were black - as Molly Day Thacher seemed thing I respect and forgive,” ac - tions only in that context. Before listed, unable to work in Holly - to right down to her death in cepting the charges of Kazan’s testifying, he told his good wood, but Kazan’s career was 1963, but he also expected to enemies that he placed his ca - friend Miller: “What the hell am saved. Even Greeks who share be forgiven by the important reer and the money it promised I giving all this up for? To de - some of his biography do not groups in his life. It didn’t work before loyalty to friends and fend a secrecy I didn’t think know what to say of the man. that way; they punished him, ideals. He seems not to have en - right and to defend people who In 1999, some may have felt but he got over it. Or as Lahr tertained the notion that Kazan had already been named or they could safely take pride in put it “I am happy when a num - was torn between conflicting would soon be by someone Kazan’s achievements when he ber of people are angry at me, loyalties and loves. else?” Our judgment of Kazan finally received a Lifetime and happier when they are an - ELIA THE GREEK partly depends on whether that Achievement award the night of gry but still, in spite of them - At one point or another in is true, but his critics found that the Oscars, but many in the au - selves, a little admiring.” their lives, Greeks Americans, The Master and the student: Kazan and Brando on location. cowardly and unacceptable and dience stood and turned their Fatherhood was manifested like other immigrant groups, that it ruined the lives of othes. backs to him to show their con - as the most powerful archetype wrestle with issues of identity of a disconnect in the traditional and he would probably not be Even Lahr, at this late date, sug - tempt, sullying his night and in his soul in his directing work, and loyalty. Perhaps not the attacks on Kazan. He is perhaps given a passport to work abroad gests that the essence of the legacy – at least to some. The where “Kazan became the sup - question “To whom do we owe like another brilliant but scarred either ... he had been told in so Kazan story is that “he chose his brouhaha that demonstrated portive, intimate, authoritative loyalty” but rather, what exactly filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, many words by his old boss and art over his ideology,” and no much of Hollywood and the father he’d never had,” writes do we owe America and what is who made propagandistic films friend Spyros Skouras...that the longer adhered to the latter. Re - American intelligentsia had yet Lahr, who quoted Brando’s au - our place here. Greeks had to in support of Hitler. Kazan was company would knot employ garding the rage, was Kazan to forgive him. “Snitch” and tobiography: “I’ve never seen a stand idly by as America permit - a man who abandoned the him unless he satisified the com - quite like a Christian cheering “traitor” are hard words to director who became as deeply ted the final, shattering, ham - Communist beliefs of his youth mittee.” the lions in Nero’s arenas? counter, but some psychological and emotionally involved in a mer blow against Hellenism in and then turned on his friends. If seems that most people, The tragic element of the re - perspective will be offered on scene.” That ability enabled Asia Minor and Constantinople That sentence alone sends the sympathetic or not, could accept sponse was described thusly by the man who generated some Kazan to be an equally valuable in the anti-Greek riots of 1955. discussion onto slippery moral what Arthur Miller acknowl - Lahr, quoting first Kazan: “I of the most powerful perfor - collaborator with the writers he Then there was the shame of ground, but that is precisely the edged in Timebends, “That seemed to have crossed some mances in American cultural worked with, especially the Junta in 1967, U.S. sup - world often examined by Kazan there was a certain gloomy logic fundamental and incontrovert - history. Kazan himself said: “If movies. Even during the Cold in what he was saying.” But ible line of tolerance for human you can stir up the real emotion War, appreciative conservatives again, the father-son dynamic error and sin,” and then com - – whether of anger or love or might have felt like washing was missed and perceived as a menting: “The almost magical desire ... if you can stir it up and their hands after greeting mere friendship, but one not off - esteem in which he was held by use it, now you have something Kazan. setting those he abandoned the acting community fed the unique and unusual.” The A VERY BAD MAN? when testifying. rage which verged on the Oedi - essence of Kazan ability, writes Is it possible to disentangle The stakes may have been pal.” He quoted actor Rod Lahr is his gift for releasing the issues such as character, ideol - greater than even friends could Steiger: “There is no forgive - articulate energy of actors and ogy and loyalty? That’s what grasp. The man with immense ness...he was our father and he turning psychology into behav - Kazan attempted in one of his father issues could perhaps only (screwed) us.” To whom did ior,” but he also had a gift for greatest films, On the Water - see imagine himself resolving Kazan owe his ultimate loyalty, provoking a torrent of rage front. For the moment, Kazan’s those explosive issues as a di - to his Hollywood children’s ide - against himself. action, naming names, can be rector, so he ignored or missed alization of him, or to his surro - ANALYSING THE ANALYST examined independently of the the implications of lending sup - gate father, Skouras? Kazan One of the many Kazan other charge against him, that port to another dark father fig - made his choice, but for him, ironies is that the critics of a his cooperation lent authority ure, the jut-jawed, unforgiving, perhaps, the real unforgivable man of profound psychological and prestige to the McCarthy self-righteous Commie Hunter, sin would have been to betray insight and ability rarely scratch hearings. On the personal level, the surface of his psyche. Actor did he willfully harm other peo - Lee Cobb, who knew him as a ple, former friends and col - young actor in the Group The - leagues? Finding himself in a ater, said, “like Bonaparte, he difficult situation, was he a was always trying to get some - wicked man who blithely ex - where, and it seemed to many A scene from Kazan’s film about the immigrant experience, ported his pain? Did he import of us in the Group he would do America, America. Spyros Skouras’ pain? Most peo - anything, really anything to get ple’s lives seem to be a wash on there.” Lahr tries to delve Williams, to whom he also ported if not inspired, and the that analysis, neither net im - deeper into Kazan. He examined played the father. invasion of Cyprus in 1974. porters nor net exporters of the crucible in which his char - WHAT DOESN’T KILL ME. Greeks “acceptance” as an eth - pain, but examine what Kazan acter was formed, his Anatolian Being born in live theater, nic group was still fairly recent, himself said about the situation. Greek American immigrant’s much of this artistic father’s and it was barely perceptible in Lahr writes that his testimony home. “He was eldest of four “progeny” has disappeared or 1952. It is perhaps a symptom consisted of “naming a handful sons of George Kazanjioglou, a clings to a shadowy being as of an insecurity that disap - of party officials he’d known 17 rug dealer, and Athena, his more fading memories in aging peared slowly among second, years earlier, and eight members cultured younger wife,” says Broadway audiences from the even third generations of Greek of the Group Theater, where he Lahr, who then quotes Kazan: “I 1940’s and 1950’s. His films are Americans that most were will - had been and actor and director can’t remember my father ever his real bid for eternity, and ing to accept the verdict of their in the thirties, one of whom was reading a book.” Lahr says the those were at least partly born fellow Americans against their dead and most of whom were Kazan clutching his Lifetime Achievement Oscar, is hugged by son “shared both his mother’s of his partial ostracism. Lahr Greek brother. But maybe already known to the commit - Martin Scorcese at the 1999 Academy Awards. passion for literature and her writes that after the HUAC hear - Kazan’s name became such a tee.” He notes that despite the displeasure for her husband ... dirty word for some sections of fact that at least 73 people ap - McCarthy. For all his film vision, or deny Skouras. There were George Kazan was an Old World “If you can stir up the real society that he could not be fully peared before HUAC as friendly what Kazan didn’t see was that dangerous but different prices patriarch, oblivious to the needs embraced or forgiven by his fel - witnesses, Kazan’s prominence in 1950’s America, with the hor - to pay either way. Lahr writes of others; he was also a frus - emotion – whether of low Greeks. and the fact that “was a vocal rors and wounds of WWII and that Kazan had to change his trated man, full of violence that anger or love or desire ... There are few groups who left-winger (he’d joined the the Holocaust still so raw, Mc - phone number and hire a body - he dared to express only in bru - are more fiercely loyal to ideals Communist party in 1935 but Carthy was perceived by many guard for his wife and children. talizing outbursts at home. He now you have something and causes than Greeks, but had been kicked out 18 months as equivalent to Hitler and no The critical question might be: showed volatile ambivalence to - unique and unusual” when life or self-examination later, for refusing to call a strike psychological explanation could once he became a vehement wards his oldest son, whom he challenges the bases of that loy - at the Group) is remembered as justify “friendly testimony.” That anti-communist, how did he feel dubbed good-for-nothing.” ing Kazan took refuge in work alty, what is one to do? A young the HUAC apostate.” may be why Kazan’s explana - about the infamous McCarthy Kazan said he felt, “My father .... stripped of his prestige and Kazan was loyal to his political But Kazan wrote in his diary, tions never had their desired ef - and what did he make of Sk - disapproved of me all my life,” much of his collegial support, partly and ideology, but those according to Lahr, “I’d hated the fect: “I did what I did because it ouras’s requests or pressures to and Lahr says he grew up with he had nothing else to lose.” His commitments changed. Over Communists for many years and was the more tolerable of two appear as a “friendly witness”? a “humiliated heart.” On the situation allowed him to urge time a loyalty to America devel - didn’t feel right about giving up alternatives that were either His cultural contributions merit other hand “he was Athena’s his colleagues, like cameramen oped in the man who came to my career to defend them.” Is it way painful, even disastrous,” continuing efforts to understand ‘special child’ and her confidant’ to “be bold!” A string if path - its shores at such a young age, fair to look at his actions in the Scorcese quoted him as saying. the man and work. For more in - and Kazan said, “We shared a breaking films followed. Seven despite what Lahr says, that his context of “common careerism” Still, maybe Kazan couldn’t get formation on Scorcese’s docu - secret life together.” years after his death, however, movies and plays can be seen as or should be viewed as a rare to the root of the rage against mentary as well as the opportu - Some light begins to emerge even sympathetic observers do parts of his “lovers quarrel with artist with few venues open to him because he had yet to re - nity to order the Elia Kazan from the shadows. Deprived of not go beyond, bemoaning the his country.” All loves and loy - him, a genius with few places solve his own rage about evil fa - Collection, visit: www.letter - the love and guidance a son possibility, in Lahr’s words, that alties are complex. to go to express it? Miller later ther figures. toelia.com. Kazan wrote several needs from a father, he sought “little of this enormous contri - Although it seems legitimate noted in his memoir, The “apostasy” could maybe best-selling novels. His autobi - and found it in movie magnate bution to culture would have ex - to bring biography and charac - Timebends: “Unless he came be explained to the larger com - ography is titled: “A Life”. Spyros Skouras. There may be isted if he had not testified.” ter into the assessment of an clean he could never hope .. .to munity, but not the McCarthy a loyalty here more powerful Lahr noted that April 10, artist’s work, there is something make another film in America, cowtowing After all, outside [email protected] Is There a Place for Aristotle? The Moderns vs. the Ancient Philosophies

Continued from page 1 a polis that allows him to de - difference, though sacrificing lationship between ‘internal con - for Arts and Sciences at Colum - and a series of events and con - velop to his full potential. Norm one’s self for the polis is virtuous trol’ and external control’ so bia, spoke of how Hellenic stud - ferences for the larger academic tension between the thinking ethics examines the conditions since a good state could be im - that, on the one hand, good gov - ies are thriving there and and Greek communities in the and world views of the ancients that allow a person to be good mortal while a person’s soul is ernment needs ‘the virtue’ of its thanked all who support and New York area. Under the aus - and the “moderns”, in this con - in spite of his conditions and not. citizens … and citizens need work in their behalf. In his in - pices of the Classics Department, text, philosophy, especially prescribes rules, which compel At the conclusion of her pre - good institutions for their own troduction of Urbinati, he noted the Program allows students to ethics, as it was affected by its him to be indifferent to his own sentation, Urbinati acknowl - improvement.” that she has doing pioneering study Greece through a contem - long passage in Europe through interests. Shaped through the edged that some of the differ - FOOD FOR THOUGHT research in the hitherto ignored porary lens and prepares them what had become a Christian centuries by concerns over ences between the ancients and The impressive neoclassical impact of Aristotle’s thought on for further academic study and civilization from the 4th Century men’s souls – Aristotle, unlike moderns are irreconcilable, but Rotunda of the Library, reminis - Mill, a noted 19th Century later professional work in the and as it was transformed by Plato, did not teach that the soul she noted that some modern cent of the Pantheon in Rome British philosopher and civil ser - field. Students are encouraged the scientific revolution. The lec - was immortal and could expect thinkers, especially John Stuart but surrounded by buildings en - vant. to study in Greece in the sum - ture highlighted the differences rewards and punishment - the graved with the names of the After a lively question and mer and during their Junior between the “virtue ethics” of rules enable a the person to be She touched on how great thinkers and statesmen of answer period, scholars and year.” the ancient Greeks, which re - good in spite of the modern ancient Greece and by strikingly laypersons engaged in conver - Columbia University and flects the aristocratic values of world’s impersonal institutions differently Aristotle and modern buildings within which sation stimulated by the lecture Barnard College have offered thinkers such as Aristotle and that presumably function with the moderns looked at Greek art and thought have a and good food and wine. The courses in Modern Greek lan - focused on the conditions nec - out caring if its citizens are good prominent place in the famed annual lecture series was estab - guage and culture since the essary for the “good life,” and persons. concepts such as happiness school’s core curriculum, was a lished along with the Kyriakos 1930’s. In 1988, a gift from Ki - the “norm ethics” which This is more compatible with and the good life fitting site for a series dedicated Tsakopoulos Chair as part of the mon A. Doukas created the basis emerged in the modern period, modern mass society - despised to the continued relevance of the The Program in Hellenic Studies for the establishment of a pro - especially in the hands of Im - by Nietzsche - that grants citi - Mill, attempt to blend what is ideas of philosophers like Aris - through a donation in 2004 by gram. The goal is to create a ma - manuel Kant, the 18th Century zenship to all and promotes possible in the two approaches totle. Tsakopoulos welcomed the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos, who is a jor center for Hellenic and German philosopher who ques - equality regardless the quality via self education, which would guests and honored the memory trustee of Columbia and the CEO Balkan Studies with its own bud - tioned the scope and limitations of one’s actual character. There be enhanced by the rise of mod - of his grandfather, after whom of AKT Development Corpora - get and physical space on cam - of knowledge, what the Greeks was too little time to examine ern public education praised by he is named and to whom the tion based in Sacramento. The pus. The program’s Co-directors called epistemology. another difficulty in discussing modern and less aristocratic series is dedicated. Tsakopoulos series focuses on the importance are Dr. Karen Van Dyck and She touched on how differ - these matters, the different ways thinkers such as John Dewey, described his grandfather as a and relevance of Aristotle’s Stathis Gourgouris. Vangelis ently Aristotle and the moderns of looking at virtue itself - the who believed the expanded citi - “simple and direct man on teachings in today’s world, par - Calotychos is Associate Professor looked at concepts such as hap - ancients’ arête as excellence, zenship could aspire to the whose broad shoulders our fam - ticularly with regard to his of Modern Greek Literature & piness and the good life. She which seems connected to one’s virtues of Aristotle’s peers. ily stood.” As was the case in books, the Politics and Nico - Culture. The program’s Web site said he believed that a person usefulness to his society, and the Urbinati said she believes that many Greek immigrant families, machean Ethics. thanks the following individuals can only be judged to be happy, more Christian sense of virtue by drawing on the thinking of “He was a man of little educa - Columbia’s Program in Hel - and organizations for their sup - as possessing eudaimonia - after as goodness, especially the con - the ancients and the moderns, tion who admired learning lenic Studies, according to its port, Mr. Kimon A. Doukas, Mr. viewing it as a whole, because trol of ones passions or appetites it is possible to maintain a bal - greatly.” He inspired his grand - Web site, “offers an undergrad - Kyriakos Tsakopoulos, Alexander he said the good life cannot be (Plato would be sympathetic) in ance between the excellence of son’s interest in Aristotle by the uate curriculum in Modern S. Onassis Public Benefit Foun - separated from virtuous actions addition to self-sacrifice and in - society and the individual. She way “he pushed his family to Greek and Greek-American dation, Greek Ministry of Cul - and these require a person to be difference to the world as taught cited the eminent contemporary (seek) the good, as individuals Studies, interdepartmental sup - ture, and the Lucy Foundation. free from disease and poverty by the Church. Aristotle’s virtu - political theorist Robert Dahl, and in society.” Nicholas B. port for graduate students work - and a free and active citizen in ous man cannot accept such in - who says there is a “circular re - Dirks, Executive Vice President ing on Greece and the Balkans, [email protected] THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 25-31, 2010 FEATURE 7

GREEK MUSIC ...PLUS Greek Pulp Fiction: There’s Zorba and Never on Sunday and Not Much Else

NEW YORK- It could make for Greek music simply in those sicians and groups. music in movies but another exotic name, often suggestions email or visit: an interesting trivia game, trying terms. In any case, whatever the Both actress and such as Serpico used among many others, in ti - gkangm@ aol.com, www.gmani - to name Greek songs or melodies perception might have been, composer gained in - with Al Pacino, as tles of Greek songs during the nakis.com that over the years have gained Theodorakis’ music in the 1964 ternational recogni - well as Z and Stage 1940’s and 1950’s. Well, my recognition beyond the borders Academy Award Winner, director tion, as they pre - of Seige by Director friends nothing could be further of Greece to become well known Michalis Cakoyiannis’ film, Zorba sented an edited Costas Gavras. from the truth. Just a few weeks worldwide. How many such the Greek, changed all that. So version of the film, Quite popular are back, on my radio show at Cos - tunes and/or songs can you much so that the vibrant music with the name Ilya also, Vangelis Pap - mos 91.5 FM, I was focusing on GREEK POETRY name? I venture that, many of in the film along with the syrtaki Darling, in the the - athanasiou’s music Greek songs that referred to atres of Europe and in the film, 1492: names. Misirlou was one of the United States in - Conquest of Par - songs I played. A member of the The Alibi cluding New York adise and his Oscar audience called, inquiring City’s Broadway, in by GRIGORIS winner, best origi - whether Misirlou was actually a Whenever I come to visit you the early 1960’s. MANINAKIS nal music score, for name, while my friend Stelios, a only the time that’s intervened Few of our readers the British film regular listener and co-producer, from one visit to the next has might know that Special to Chariots of Fire. commented that Misirlou was a changed. there is a down side The National Herald The music of this song with such a long history, As for the rest, as always associated with this film became one of that I could have a whole show from my eyes runs a river song as well. As a result of its the biggest hits in International dedicated solely to it. My digging your engraved name blurred popularity, the song was greatly Charts, staying on top for five into the background of the song – godfather to the little hyphen commercialized to the point months in 1982. proved that both callers were between the two dates where the highly principled dis - In regards to the song Misir - correct in their comments. Since so people won’t think the length owned it and gave up his rights lou things are a bit more confus - then I have gathered a lot of in - of your life died unbaptised. to it. According to his own rea - ing and somewhat complicated. teresting information about the Next I clean the flowers’ soning, he never intended the There is little doubt that the song, which you will allow me withered droppings adding song to become the music of melody of the song is uniquely, to share with you in a future col - some red earth where black had folkloric style commercials and the most popular of any other umn. For now let me just, rouse been laid advertising to attract tourists in Greek song worldwide, in both your curiosity about it. Be well and finally I change the glass in Greece. His conversation with the West and the East. Despite it and keep enjoying those great the oil-lamp Mercouri, while having dinner at all, I must admit that, while I Greek melodies. for another a clean one I bring. a restaurant, is somewhat amus - have played and sung the song Equally famous around the world is the Academy Award win - ing as she says, “So Manos, you on several occasions at concerts Grigoris Maninakis is a Professor As soon as I get home ning music by Theodorakis’ rival, Manos Hadjidakis, Never on have a child you wish to give up in New York and other states, I of Engineering Technology at I diligently wash the dirty one Sunday, the film starring the acclaimed actress Melina Mercouri, and I am a mother willing to was quite misinformed, if not ig - SUNY Farmingdale. He has been disinfecting it with chlorine whose rendition made it too popular for the composer’s taste. adopt it,” with Hadjidakis re - norant, as to its origins and its active in Greek music since the and the caustic foam of disgust I sponding with a smile, that the historical background. Informa - early 70s as a founding member emit our readers would very likely, Zorba dance, by Anthony Quinn, song will at least have a good tion I have read about the song and singer/soloist of the Greek as I shake vigorously. readily identify only two, both became the quintessential Greek mother. on several CD inserts and covers Popular Chorus of N.Y. esta- Always with gloves and keeping related to music written for well music symbol. In many cases the Everyone is well aware of the identify Misirlou as a 1950 com - blished by Mikis Theo do ra kis. He my body known films: Zorba the Greek, music was often included in per - unprecedented worldwide pop - position by Nikos Roubanis, a has organized Greek music con - well away from the tiny basin music by Mikis Theodorakis, and formances by world-renowned ularity of the Beatles in the musician and bandleader, who certs all over the U.S. and occa - so the dead water won’t splash Never on Sunday, music by symphony orchestras. One exam - 1960’s. How many know, how - for many years lived and per - sionally in Greece. His column me. Manos Hadjidakis. There is also ple is the London Symphony ever, that the Beatles played and formed in the United States. I appear s twice a month in The Na - With strong aversion’s wire wool at least one song and melody which nearly brought the house recorded a Mikis Theodorakis also thought that Misirlou was tional Herald. For comments and I scour which gained extensive world - down when it played the Zorba song? Under the name The Hon - the ingrained grease on the glass’ wide fame and recognition, al - score in one of its performances eymoon Song, it was sung by rim though its origins are not neces - and which you can enjoy in this Paul McCartney and recorded on and on the palate of the doused sarily known 100% and that is link: July 16, 1963, for the BBC Pop flame Misirlou, one of the most widely http://www.youtube.com/watch Go The Beatles series. In Greece, while rage crushes the illicit stroll recognized songs, in America, ?v=U7_dAk-yrqU. Despite its the song is well known under the of a snail, trespasser Europe and even the eastern renowned composer and un - name An thimithis t’oneiro mou in the neighbouring stillness. world, a guitar-busting version precedented worldwide popular - – If You Remember My Dream. made by Dick Dale of which was ity, there is a down side to the The lyrics are by Vasilis Kardis I rinse it then rinse with scalding used in the cult film Pulp Fiction Zorba music-dance, as it has (a pseudonym of Nikos Gatsos,) fury and makes you want to rocket strongly stereotyped Greece as and it was composed by a boiling effort to bring the glass off your chair. Greek music in the syrtaki-souvlaki land. Equally Theodorakis in November 1958, to its prime films has been more popular popular became the 1960 Oscar in Paris, for Michael Powell’s film its happy normal use abroad, than most of us believe, winner music of Hadjidakis, Honeymoon, and originally sung for quenching thirst. since movies have been the per - composed for Jules Dassin’s film by Greek singer Giovanna. And at last it becomes crystal fect vehicle to make it known Never on Sunday, starring the di - Given the artistic magnitude clear worldwide. Up to a point, most rector and the woman who of the Beatles in the 1960’s I of - how hypochondriacal my wish is foreigners thought of Greek mu - would become his wife, Melina ten wonder why this song did One of the greatest performances in film history, Anthony not to die. sic as a blend of Middle Eastern Mercouri. The melody of the not become an even bigger pop - Quinn (L) as Zorba the Greek, was enhanced with the title and Byzantine sounds, notes and song Ta paidia tou Pirea, sung in ular hit worldwide. To close the song music composed by the renowned Mikis Theodorakis, dearest – look at it this way: rhythms. Although this impres - the film by Mercouri, became a circle on Greek music in films of underscored by the film’s climactic scene in which Zorba dances when wasn’t love afraid of death? sion is not far from the truth it trademark character of Greek international recognition, we with The Englishman, played by Alan Bates, opening the for - would be unfair to characterize music and covered by many mu - should mention Theodorakis’ eigner’s eyes about the Greek Way. Kiki Dimoula (1931-)

Wishing the Entire Greek American Community

Joyous Christmas and a Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year

Καλά Χριστούγεννα Frixos O. Goussis, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E., P.C. Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism και Ευτυχισμένο 1010 Northern Blvd., Suite 100 το Νέο Ετος Great Neck, N.Y. 11021 Telephone: (516) 773-6301 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 25-31, 2010 Mary Maragos, Stalwart Hellene and Beloved Public Servant is Mourned

TNH Staff Writer and that when Simotas decided gos to serve as my eyes and ears of the life of the Hellenic-Ameri - tration and supervision from to run for office she and Dr. in that thriving, bustling commu - can community, from being a Fordham University, and a doc - NEW YORK – Astoria, Queens Maragos “had a frank discussion nity for the last seventeen years. booster of Greek-American soccer torate in International-Intercul - and the Greek American Com - about the rewards and challenges In addition, Dr. Marangos repre - clubs to supporting arts and the tural Developmental Education munity of Greater New York will of public office.” Simotas said Dr. sented me at an international humanities to increasing aware - from Florida State University un - miss the energy, love and dedi - Maragos, who has Cypriot family conference held in Cyprus and ness and appreciation of the der a full fellowship from the U.S. cation of Dr. Mary Maragos, long- roots, loved her heritage and Or - Greece in 2002, which was fit - splendors of Greek civilization, Department of Education. time member of the staff of Con - thodox faith and that she was ex - ting, as she had been active in past and present. Mary Marangos was the lov - gresswoman Carlolyn Maloney cited that another Hellene was the Cyprus Liberation Movement Mary Marangos’ dedication to ing and devoted daughter of Pan - who passed away on Friday, De - running for office in Astoria. since the island’s illegal occupa - public service and helping others telis Marangos from Kalavasos, cember 17 after a heroic fight In honor of a most hard-work - tion in 1974. started much earlier than her Cyprus and Despina Kyriacou against cancer. The funeral was ing and devoted Hellene, The Na - Mary Marangos was a whirl - tenure as a congressional staff from Lesvos, Greece, and Cyprus. held at Astoria’s Cathedral of St. tional Herald reprints the state - wind of activity in the Hellenic- member. She was an educator, She was devoted to them and Markella on Tuesday morning, ment that Congresswoman American community of our na - administrator and coordinator at steadfast in her care of both in December 21. Carolyn Maloney entered into the tion’s greatest city, leading me to the vocational/alternative high their later years. N.Y. State Senator-Elect Congressional Record. bestow upon her the nickname school level in the New York City Dr. Marangos has been an im - Michael Gianaris was one of IN RECOGNITION OF THE “the Greek Cannonball.” She was public school system, serving as portant leader of the Hellenic many members and leaders of LATE DR. MARY MARANGOS active in and helped organize a coordinator of the GED pro - American community. Her as - the community who were sad - HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY events for countless organiza - gram at the Vocational Training sertiveness, intelligence, willing - dened by the loss. “Mary was al - OF NEW YORK IN THE tions such as the Panpaphian As - Center at LaGuardia Airport. She ness to help are only a few of the ways protecting the interests of HOUSE OF sociation and the Women’s Issues coordinated the AIDS Prevention characteristics that make her the Greek American community. REPRESENTATIVES Network of the Pancyprian Asso - Program on the high school level, such a special person. Time and She will be missed - there are not Madam Speaker, I rise to ciation. She worked closely with training teachers on how to teach time again she has gone out of a lot of Mary Maragoses around,” honor the late Dr. Mary Maran - local organizations such as the HIV prevention and holding con - her way to help member of our Gianaris told TNH. gos, a longtime activist in the Greek-American Homeowners ferences on the epidemic. Dr. community in need. She truly Aravella Simotas, N.Y. State Hellenic American community Association, the Cretan Associa - Marangos also fostered staff de - epitomizes the spirit of the Hel - Assemblywoman-Elect for Astoria and dedicated congressional staff tion, and the Federation of Hel - velopment initiatives for elemen - lenic-American woman – said the community will not be member who passed away this lenic Societies on important ac - tary school teachers and admin - strength of character, activism, the same without the woman month after a valiant struggle Dr. Mary Maragos tivities such as citizenship and istrators. intelligence and compassion. whose “entire mission in life was with breast cancer. A career ed - voter registration drives. She A graduate of New York City Madam Speaker, I request to help others. She was a really ucator and public servant, Mary representing Astoria, New York, proudly accompanied me as we public schools, Mary Marangos that my esteemed colleagues join remarkable person, full of life Marangos touched the hearts and home to the largest population marched each year in the Greek earned a Bachelor of Science de - me in paying tribute to the late and a positive outlook despite her bettered the lives of countless in - of persons of Hellenic descent Independence parade on Fifth gree from the New York State Ed - Dr. Mary Marangos for her ex - illness.” Simotas told TNH that dividuals from all walks of life. anywhere in the United States, I Avenue in Manhattan, and was ucation Department, a Master’s traordinary contributions to the she was a role model for women As the Member of Congress have depended on Mary Maran - deeply involved in every aspect Degree in high school adminis - civic life of our nation.

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Continued from page 1 ports - including two on the pop - ular tourist island of Crete. Other vote against him. He was able state assets to go under the ham - to get his way because all of his mer include one of the country’s party’s 156 members in the top casinos and stakes in the wa - 300-seat Parliament supported ter companies of Athens and him, but not without grumbling Thessaloniki. they have been marginalized Greece is trying to cut its and forced to vote in lockstep losses from a host of ailing state with what Papandreou and the enterprises which last year had Troika want, although the pre - combined deficits of more than mier warned he would not tol - $2.3 billion. erate any dissent against his Papandreou called the eco - wishes. nomic dilemma a “deep crisis” PASOK lawmaker Thomas for Greece, and called for the op - Rompopoulos said that he would position to stand by the govern - quit the party if he felt that the ment in the “race” to save the government was not allowing nation for future generations. “I Parliament to debate reforms and more determined than ever properly. “I was a businessman to change Greece,” he said. “We for 32 years, I have only been an will not go bankrupt.” Conserv - MP for one but you cannot pre - ative opposition leader Antonis sent the budget and simply say, AP PHOTO/NIKOLAS GIAKOUMIDIS Samaras said that the govern - ‘That’s it, vote for it,’ or submit A woman holds a baby as she passes in front of a pile of garbage Piles of trash appeared around the city after municipal author - ment’s policies of austerity and bills designated as emergency in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, Dec. 23, 2010. ities laid off rubbish collectors on short-term job contracts. higher taxes were strangling the legislation so they are voted on Greek economy: “The way of this without discussion,” he said. “We pandreou told Kathimerini that Financial and legal advisers crisis lies in growth.” He added: need discussion, we need pro - the premier would rather call will be employed “immediately” “The government’s taxation pol - ductive discussion,” he added, early elections than have to give to handle the extension of con - icy has failed, and in early 2011 according to Agence France up the process of carrying out cession rights for the operation it will need to impose another Presse. Papandreou reportedly structural reforms and sticking of Athens International Airport, extra 13 billion euros ($17 bil - to the agreement Greece has find a strategic investor for state lion) in austerity measures, at a made with the International defense contractor EAS and ex - time where the economy badly But you cannot present Monetary Fund and the Euro - ploit state holdings in gas oper - needs stimulus for growth,” and the budget and simply pean Union. ators DEPA and DESFA. Conces - some of Papandreou’s own So - GOING PRIVATE sion rights at Athens cialist deputies criticized the belt- say, “That’s it, vote for it” One way to reduce the $360 International Airport, where the tightening as hurting the econ - billion debt that the Prime Min - state has a 55% stake, were omy. Two smaller opposition said he would no longer brook ister has apparently settled on, granted to German group party leaders suggested that any criticism from within his to the discomfort of unions that Hochtief for 30 years in 2001. some form of a stoppage on party, especially after he had to traditionally support PASOK, is Greece will also “manage” its Greece’s mounting debt pay - oust one member who didn’t a three-year privatization plan to holdings in profitable state bet - ments may be a solution, or an agree with him. “The Prime Min - raise $9.3 billion, through the ting operator OPAP and invite orderly sovereign default should ister, the government and the sale and exploitation of state private investment in two state be seriously considered by the parliamentary group choose to companies and other assets. The lotteries and state racetrack op - cash strapped country. “Have the clash head-on with those that are Finance Ministry said that the erator ODIE, the ministry said. proponents of debt default in this irresponsible and display unbear - government intended to draw “at The government will also seek chamber seriously considered able tendencies for populism,” least one billion euro” in 2011 financial and legal advice on con - the consequences of such a move said Interior Minister Yiannis from the partial sale, joint man - cession deals involving some 850 EUROKINISSI and the impact on the average Ragousis, one of Papandreou’s agement or outright privatization marinas, a dozen port authorities Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks during a bud - Greek citizen?” Finance Minister closest aides. Sources close to Pa - of hundreds of properties. and a number of regional air - get debate at the Greek parliament in Athens, Dec. 22, 2010. George Papaconstantinou said. A Nod to Ataturk, Boutaris’ New Epoch of Environment and Reform

Continued from page 1 environmentalist who in 2003 mayor left - $67.3 million - was awarded the European Boutaris said that means some owners, who has tattoos and ad - Hero prize by Time Magazine new fiscal thinking. To help mitted that during his youth he for his contribution to protecting boost the local economy was a bit of a maverick, includ - the natural environment, he Boutaris said he and his team ing taking drugs. “I am not a said Thessaloniki’s trash prob - are doing a research on how politician,” he repeated, a lem needs an immediate solu - they can collaborate on innova - phrase that has become a bit of tion and it will be his number tion with Thessaloniki’s twin a mantra for him. “I will never one priority when he assumes city, Nice, in France. He said he become one so I won’t change office at the beginning of Janu - wants to establish cooperation my personality nor am I going ary. He said he plans to “imple - between Sofia Antipolis, and to lie to people in order to win ment immediately a new trash Thessaloniki’s newly established their confidence. This is who I system with environmentally Alexandria Zone that aims to am and this is my history,” he friendly vehicles and an alter - promote innovation and tech - said firmly. With spiky gray hair native more efficient recycling nology in the area. Sofia Antipo - and granny glasses, he wouldn’t system.” lis, which lies northwest of An - look out of place as a 1960’s re - He is also a founding mem - tibes and northwest of Nice, is former who hasn’t changed, al - ber of the Union of Citizens for a technology park established in though that’s what he wants to Thessaloniki, which, in cooper - the 1980’s that houses primarily bring to his city. Married to ation with environmental orga - companies in the fields of tech - Athena Mihail, he has three chil - nizations and other constituen - nology. “I have been through dren and six grandchildren, has Socialist-backed Mayoral candidate Yiannis Boutaris, who won cies of Thessaloniki, prevented many crises in my life, and I Yiannis Boutaris comes from served as Chairman of The in the northern city of Thessaloniki, the second largest in the poldering of the old beach think crisis is the period where one of Greece's best known Greek Wine Association and is Greece, waves in victory Nov. 15, 2010. in the city. He has also taken people or nations turn page, wine making companies. a member of the European steps to rescue the declining tra - things can change, we can cre - Winemakers Association and the tourism campaign while he also for the conservation of large car - ditional settlement of Nymfaio ate new opportunities, explore lies in their thinking. “People International Wine Academy in said that “Turkish, Armenian nivores in Greece and in in Florina where he supports the new horizons,” he said. For have become too pessimistic, Geneva. and other Balkan nations,” could Balkans. Along with a his ac - local economy through the es - Boutaris that also means that they believe that nothing can be MORE THAN WINE track their roots in Thessaloniki. tions to save the environment tablishment of tourism, camping “We tackle Thessaloniki’s main done, that all politicians are cor - Boutaris brings real life cre - “This city needs to find its iden - he is a founding member of the and horse riding facilities. Today problems, trash and traffic jam, rupted and that there is no light dentials, not a political career, tity, it has such a prolonged and Macedonian Museum of Con - Nympfaio is considered an ex - then restore the city’s identity at the end of the tunnel.” He to the position heading a city rich history and still we haven’t temporary Art and has financed ceptional model of ecological and boosting the economic de - hopes to change that, he got in - that is almost an afterthought taken advantage of it so far. the operation of the Museum, and tourist development. velopment.” volved into public affairs as “an in Greece because of Athens. Thessaloniki’s location is critical, sponsoring exhibitions, book re - “Despite Thessaloniki’s seri - Boutaris said the main prob - ordinary citizen” and he remains But he said it has the same kind we should communicate more leases, concerts and perfor - ous problems that is garbage lem society faces, and perhaps “the same person until today.” of problems as any big city, the with our neighbors and instead mances to provide opportunities and traffic congestion,” Boutaris he will too in convincing people Well, not exactly, because now capital of the region of Macedo - of showing to the world the to young, deserving artists. He says, “People in Greece are go - he’s not just another politician, he’s a Mayor too. nia in Greece’s north, with a big great history this city has that said arts and culture should be ing through a stressful period port and more than a million affects so many nationalities and at the epicenter of Thessaloniki’s not knowing how the economic residents in its urban zone. That take advantage of it we try to development. meltdown will end. It is not only means traffic, energy, ecological cover it up as if we are afraid of HONK! HONK! HONK! the domestic crisis that affects and economic problems as something,” Boutaris said. There are grittier problems modern Greeks but the interna - Greece teeters on bankruptcy, He left the family business facing the city though, and he tional havoc that exists not only and the challenge to use its vast only to build his own winemak - said he’s aware of them, espe - in the economy but also in the cultural history as a lure for vis - ing empire under the brand Kyr- cially traffic congestion he said environment and the society.” itors, although he said that gives Yannis, and has been engaged could be solved through a stren - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT him the opportunity to become in public affairs for years. He uous but relatively low-cost pro - Turning into Greece’s finan - a cultural hub and seize on his has a strong presence in several ject that includes increasing bus cial state, Boutaris says, “We can former standing as a base for environmental organizations lanes from nine to 100 kilome - not avoid the memorandum, we Jewish residents. such as the National Center for ters, adding more sea transport have to make our lives better He said that he aims to at - Environment and Sustainable and building a new tram, which with what we have, and we tract Jewish visitors from Israel Development, and Arcturos, the he said could reach 25 kilome - will.” As for Thessaloniki’s debt and elsewhere through a NGO he founded back in 1992 ters in two years.” A well-known that he inherited, the previous

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Some thing of value than the having. increased 16% over last year. This means that 14% of the population years, just want to put 2010 be - tion is that the holi - years ago I wrote an Driven by a core value in which is now living on food stamps. That's about 43 million people, or about hind them with a “good rid - days are closely article for a profes - self-fulfillment was always more one out of every seven Americans.” Where are the jobs? dance” sigh of relief. It has been related to - even if sional journal in important than material success, One of the most frustrating aspects of the situation is the seemingly a very difficult, challenging year, they do not actually which I said the fol - I found myself submerged deeply endless bickering between Democrats and Republicans. What may be one we’d probably like to forget. cause - depression. lowing about my in what my friend and colleague more disturbing, however, is the infighting amongst economists and The economic climate proved Many people feel es - by Dr. ALEX own life: Professor Peter Vaill termed the other financial experts. We are angry at the politicians due to their once again to be more of a per - pecially lonely and PATTAKOS Time and expe - “permanent whitewater” of lack of real action, but what real action are they supposed to take? fect storm than a recovery. Like a unfulfilled when rience certainly change. I learned that you can Which experts should they listen to? tsunami, it generated monstrous they compare their Special to tend to influence change without growing but you The Wall Street Journal bombards President Obama’s economic waves that were intent on de - lives to that depicted The National Herald what seems worth cannot grow without changing. program. In its December 9 edition John F. Cogan and John B. Taylor stroying anything in their path. in Norman Rockwell having and doing. Over the years, I have been able wrote “The economic data rolling in confirm that recent temporary, And economic concerns were not paintings and on television chan - In my case, however, these influ - to reaffirm over and over again targeted stimulus programs have not worked, and that their enactment the only source of turbulence, nels with uplifting fare. For these ences have been tempered by the that my growth and learning was a triumph of Keynesian wishful-thinking over practical experience.” fear, and insecurity during the folks, the holiday season is a fact that I have maintained over have spiraled higher over time. I Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Laureate who served as the Chairman of year. The mass media’s “end of dreadful time rather than a spe - my adult life a set of core values believe that it is the authentic President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, disagrees with the the year” reviews will provide cial occasion for experiencing and or principles to guide my commitment to meaningful val - Journal’s analysis and wrote in the Daily News on December 22: many other examples of why spreading joy. “Bah! Humbug!” I thoughts and actions. In effect, ues and goals (will to meaning) “Contrary to what you may have heard, the first round [of stimulus ] 2010 is yet another year that de - exclaimed, not intending to min - these values, which have mani - that has enabled me to navigate worked: But for the $800 billion stimulus passed in February 2009, serves to be forgotten. No matter imize the significance of job loss fested themselves in different and discover the seeds of mean - unemployment would have peaked in excess of 12 percent.” He be - how bad the year may have been or other life challenges. ways over the years, comprise the ing within the permanent white - lieves the stimulus wasn’t big enough, and blames Congress for not there is always opportunity to So whatever the incidence of foundation of my character and water of change around me. having the gumption to pass a second round, though he also notes view it through a meaning-cen - depression may be this time of ye, emanate from the essence of my Perhaps this is what is meant by that the first round “wasn’t well enough designed.” tered lens so that the year gone- the potential not only to meet but very being - my soul, if you will. the notion of the path to enlight - One side wants more tax cuts, the other more stimuli. They are by offers reason to engage in also rise above our circumstances It is as if my growth and learning enment.” In the midst of the per - equally articulate and brilliant and seem to be looking at the same some soul-searching, guidance in exists, if only through our atti - have spiraled higher and higher manent whitewater that data, but they may as well be from different planets. Let’s light some advancing our personal growth tude. Something in us can rise over time above the very same surrounds us, it is our will to extra candles in church on Christmas. and development, and a platform above and beyond everything we point. With the experience of meaning that guides us through for planning a positive future. Re - think possible. Our instinct for being able to view oneself from a the rapids of life and enables our flecting on what really matters, finding meaning in whatever sit - distance, I can now “see” more learning and growth to light the Not even God knew rediscovering and authentically uation we face, in our everyday clearly the contours of my life’s way. So, now, ask yourself: As you recommitting to the meaningful lives and work, is ours now, as journey, with all of its zigs and travel through the permanent values and goals that ultimately long as we are not prisoners of zags, in some orderly fashion. whitewater that is your life, what The Paisios scandal, as it has become known, is without precedent drive and sustain us, is a healthy our thoughts. And since the holi - My worth ethic has always set of core values or principles in the annals of the Greek American community. It surpasses even process that helps to define and day season in 2010 is a special centered on the notion of service, would you say guides your the boundaries of one's imagination. And we might be just at the end differentiate our humanness. one as it juxtaposes two years especially public service. More thoughts and actions? of the beginning, scratching the surface. What better a time for such self- and two decades, it provides a than 20 years ago, I was commit - What Vikentios, the deputy abbot at the monastery of Saint Irene reflection and meaning analysis, unique window of opportunity to ting to causes greater than my - Dr. Pattakos, author of Prisoners in Astoria, New York, revealed in a four hour long interview with the then when we experience the end do some reflection on the mean - self. To be of service to others, of Our Thoughts, is co-founder of National Herald (see our previous edition and online videos) brought of one year and beginning of an - ingful values and goals in our especially those less fortunate, a new business initiative on how sadness and sorrow to our faithful and to all decent men and women. other? lives. At this time of year, it is also became a calling and opportunity to live a meaningful life inspired The interview also raised some serious questions: How was it pos - Not long before I began to meaningful to look back on life to challenge the status quo - no by Greek culture Readers may sible for all these terrible things to take place under our noses, in As - prepare this week’s column, I was and work to see where we were, matter how much conflict was in - contact him with questions, com - toria, for God’s sake, and be kept secret for so long? Why were the interviewed by a newspaper jour - what has changed, and also what volved - became a quest. From ments, and/or suggestions at: Church’s higher ups not informed of what was going on in that so- nalist about the incidence of de - appears to have stayed the same. participating in the anti-war ef - [email protected]. called monastery, or were they? Vikentios, due to his decades long association with Paisios, is the main key to this horrendous affair. They were so closely associated COMMENTARY that, to outsiders at least, it looked inconceivable that he would be the one to open the floodgates of Paisios. But he did, to his credit. It is indeed quite unfortunate that this issue was brought to light during the holy Christmas period. What Makes a Person Wise: Barba Non Facit Philosophum We would wish a thousand times that no such scandal existed and a thousand times more that it had not broken during this period. We do not, however, choose the time when a story breaks. “A beard does not constitute a tended the seminar good job stressing still unanswered query serves as The newspaper covers events as they happen, when they break. philosopher,” is how it’s put in in the past. They are the point, or be - a worthwhile proposal. Two areas Nor do we play prosecutor. We report events with the best humanly Latin, and one of the most de - required to repeat cause it was such a of dire need include sermons and possible accuracy, doing our best to give all sides the opportunity to moralizing things about the ad - the same seminar completely absurd the correct usage of the Greek present their cases. For instance we called Paisios in Athens many ministrative end of local parish- every time they thing to say? Un - language and the Archdiocese times attempting to get his side of this story, but he refused to talk. Archdiocese relations is the major “run.” In textbook doubtedly, the audi - would do well to ensure the sem - And of course it is our duty to express our views. disconnect that exists between bureaucratic fash - ence was probably inars apply to clergymen of all Our job is to inform you, our readers, of what is happening, the those running the show at head - ion, the rite and rit - very grateful for this ranks. While all sorts of other good and the not so good. This is our mission. And we carry it out, quarters and practically everyone ual of attending su - surefire blueprint odds and ends are addressed ad we believe, in an exemplary way. It is through an informed public else, as if there is some invisible persedes the guaranteed to give nauseam, such as the importance and through the monitoring of authorities, any authorities, that force field keeping those on the transmission of in - rise to entire armies of greeting parishioners in the progress is made, that a society evolves and improves. inside hermetically cut off from formation, whose of $20 touting narthex and escorting them inside We fully understand that this upsets those who might have some - everyone and everything else, and importance seems to by Christopher parishioners happy and the perennial need for thing to hide, that they tear their clothing, much like the Pharisees, the chasm between the real world be merely ancillary. TRIPOULAS to fund their nametags, just to ensure even the saying that we scandalize the public, that we should wait for a more and the Archdiocese’s perception Blessed are those Special to parishes, enabling biggest twit can discern a council opportune time to print the news, etc. They are not scandalized, the of it seems to grow wider by the with a short atten - The National Herald them all to pay their member as they disturb the hypocrites, with the scandals themselves, but with their being pub - day. Of course, the Archdiocese tion span and poor stewardship (tax) liturgy, prancing up and down the lished. never wastes an opportunity to memory. This is especially true dues to the Archdiocese, which aisles, significant matters such as If the truth be told, their aim is to discount the importance of the prove this theory correct. The when the underlying point seems will use these proceeds to finance conflict resolution procedures, the scandals, in order to write off possible future revelations about them - compulsory seminars organized to be all about convincing future a vague mix of programs and importance of abstaining from selves... They are looking after themselves.. at the end of each year for parish council members of the impor - ministries, none supporting Greek voting when you don’t know Our job is to inform you of what happens. To serve the commu - council nominees proved no ex - tance of throwing a $20 bill in parochial schools, augmenting what you’re talking about, the nity. ception. To be fair, the quality of the tray before passing it around teachers’ salaries, or developing proper way of running a meeting, By doing so we hope to help prevent similar horrible events from the seminar may vary based on in the hopes of persuading parish - a network of real services (legal, and the pivotal importance of taking place in the future. the charisma of the individual ioners to do the same. Commu - accounting, logistical) to help al - stocking up on lexotanil when - These types of things must come to an end. The leaders of the speaker and his hold on reality, nication scholars estimate an au - leviate operational costs for ever you have the slightest con - church must cleanse it of such people. They must act now. Not even but the general philosophy be - dience forgets roughly 50% of parishes. tact with the Chancellor’s office a minute should be wasted. hind the whole undertaking is dis - what they’ve heard the moment The seminar leaves questions are completely overlooked, as is turbing. Every year, the Archdio - the talk’s completed. In three unanswered. Fortunately, one of the reality that we’d be better off cese mandates that all nominees month’s time, that figure is re - the audience members had the assigning council members by lot Merry Christmas “running” for a seat attend a sem - duced by another 50%, leaving courage to ask what was pretty and avoiding politicizing the con - inar designed to educate and 25% remembered as a “residual much on the mind of all the other gregation, considering that what train them on how to fulfill the message.” huddled masses dragging them - the silent majority wants pretty We wish you all health and happiness for the Holy Christmas sea - duties of their office, how to be a So why does the $20 bill stand selves through this annual exer - much gets overlooked anyway, son. May the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord bring peace and prosperity good… “leader.” It makes no dif - out as the residual message? Is it cise in futility: “Are there any relegating the democratic process to all. ference if nominees have at - because the presenter did such a seminars for priests, too?” The to an illusion. THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 25-31, 2010 VIEWPOINTS 11 LETTER FROM ATHENS Swedish Terrorist Attack May Bring Anti-Muslim Backlash

The Last Temptation of The terrorist attack in Sweden the Middle East, in the 1960’s and in the US has reached seven million on Dec. 11 has raised the specter, who took up a vari - the post-economic and 600, 000 in Canada. But in the minds of many people ety of low paying boom quickly found these only present a broad pic - Paisios’ Monastery of Shame both in Sweden and in the West jobs. But by the them alien and in - ture. On closer examination the of the danger posed by Muslim 1990’s the eco - compatible with Muslims are as diverse as the immigrants. Such musings in nomic boom of the Swedish values. A Christians. Twenty-five percent We don’t want be antithetical to and of themselves become self- 1960’s was over good example of are converts to Islam and 59% to go off half- what students at fulfilling prophesies because the and the Dutch no the indifference of those are African-Americans, cocked here be - the Holy Cross backlash against Muslim immi - longer needed the with which the while four percent are Hispanic. cause all we have at School of Theology grants after terrorist strikes. The immigrants. But Swedes have Twenty percent are South Asian, this point in what in Brookline, Mass - plight of the immigrant in North they let them bring treated their Mus - and the majority of the rest are seems to be the achusetts are America is not new. European their families and lim neighbors came Arab. Considering the total num - most sordid story of taught, unless and Chinese immigrants in the then outspoken by DR. ANDRE in the wake of a fire ber of Muslims in North America, sexual abuse com - there’s a class in late 19th and early 20th Cen - Dutch racists GEROLYMATOS that consumed a extremists represent an infinites - ing out of the teaching personal turies not only faced racism and turned their venom discothèque and 63 imal percentage of the commu - Church since the hygiene to parish - discrimination when looking for on the Muslims. Special to of its patrons. The nity. last one are charges ioners. You thought a house or even booking a hotel Van Gogh, before The National Herald club was a favored Remarkably the reference to and allegations The Sopranos was room but in many cases they he turned his atten - haunt of Muslim Muslim Americans and Canadi - about the reign of by ANDY sensational stuff? faced the noose. The so-called tion on Islam, was an anti- immigrants and four Iranian ans is usually the Muslim com - Metropolitan DABILIS (Note to my boss… true-blue Americans who boast Semite. In the 1990’s, he young men started the fire. What munity, yet the census bureaus Paisios at the . “am requesting relatives on the Mayflower - dropped the Jews and focused is significant is that the next day do not take religion into account. Chrystovalantou Special to time off to write which if they can be traced to his hatred on the Muslims. This while the families of the victims Perhaps, they should and if the Monastery in Asto - The National Herald the pilot for a tele - manifest of that fateful ship it seems to be the pattern of most were mourning outside the census bureaus and the politi - ria, N.Y., so perhaps vision series called would have been larger than the European and American anti- burned out building, the Swedes cians do so it would be a tacit he’s innocent and as clean as a The Monastery that will blow crew of a modern aircraft carrier Semites they shift their anger went about their business in a admission that religion is the baby’s bottom, although I the roof off the church (rephrase – took exception to people who from the Jews to the Muslims. nearby market as if nothing had defining identity of Muslims and wouldn’t use those words that.)” looked and sounded different. Significantly, In Sweden, local happened. in this respect it would make it around him. But generally in the Readers of The National Her - Jews, Catholics, Greeks, Italians, skinheads abandoned bullying Sadly, North American society easier to represent these citizens news business, when you string ald may have some passion fa - Chinese, Japanese, and indeed the Jews in exchange for the is slowly drifting in the same di - and immigrants in their proper together the words “Priest- tigue after all the scandals, often Muslims faced the cruelty of the more vulnerable Muslim com - rection as the European by ig - context. Equally remarkable is teenage girls-teenage boys going involving sex, falling over the KKK or the distain of their neigh - munity. noring or fearing their Muslim that little effort is made by im - to the priest’s room late at night Church like a shroud, and what bors, because they dressed and Van Gogh began to bait Dutch members. Unfortunately, the migration authorities in em - to give confession-pregnant these tawdry tales do is weaken looked different, belonged to dif - Muslims with rants that included mountain of misconception and bassies and consulates to prepare nuns-group sex-gun (yes, gun)- the faith of many and denigrate ferent faiths, cooked strange comments that referred to them misunderstanding is growing. Muslims as well as other reli - police-FBI-$250,000 in church the real God’s Work being done food such as pizza, souvlaki, as “goat-f--kers.” His provocation Fear of Islamic terrorism is ratch - gious and secular applicants on cash in a bag-stolen gold icons- by the overwhelming majority curry and other such exotics that culminated with his film, Sub - eting up fear of all Muslims pref - the laws and norms of America. death threats-resigning for of his true followers and priests are today common in American mission 1, which graphically de - aced by the backlash to the pro - This will facilitate the ability of health reasons,” you get the who toil and sacrifice and give cuisine. picted violence against women posed Muslim community center the immigrants to adjust to their Duck Syndrome coming into ef - all that’s holy and good. There Lynchings and beatings and in Muslim societies, at which in New York. Even the make up new environment and reduce the fect. If it walks like a duck, and are many who lead honorable other abuse were the price peo - point he was murdered by of Muslim community is miscon - anxiety of the indigenous popu - talks like a duck, it’s a duck. We and exemplary lives in His Ser - ple fleeing poverty and discrimi - Muhammad Bouyeri, a Dutch strued. According to the most re - lation. said duck, although I wouldn’t vice, and they are the ones who nation in their home countries Moroccan Muslim, who shot and cent statistics (although the use that word around him. should stand up and rail against had to pay for the promise of a stabbed Van Gogh in revenge. American and Canadian census Dr. Gerolymatos is chair of Hel - That these charges were lev - their leaders and not leave it to better life in the new world. They Dutch society transformed from bureaus do not collect data on lenic Studies at Simon Fraser eled by his long-time associate a newspaper dedicated to the did not have the protection of one of the most permissive coun - religious affiliation) the Muslim University in Vancouver, British and fellow founder of what truth because that’s supposed to laws or lobbies and their only as - tries in Europe to one that re - population in both countries is Columbia and the author of "Red seems to be a brothel instead of be the standard they follow as set was the ability to survive in a treated into fear. Sweden was no growing rapidly. Surveys from Acropolis, Black Terror: The a monastery, Bishop Vikentios, well. By now, it’s obvious that hostile environment. A great deal different. The Swedes welcomed the last couple of years indicate Greek Civil War and the Origins give them the weight of credi - the Church and money don’t has changed since the xenopho - thousands of Muslim immigrants that the Muslim population of of Soviet-American Rivalry." bility, but they are only allega - mix, especially when no one bia of the 19th and 20th Cen - tions, and Paisios hasn’t been ar - knows where it’s going. While turies. Today, there are laws rested or prosecuted in any the Monastery was under the against discrimination, punish - court, although the Holy Synod lack of leadership of the Patri - ment for hate crimes and protec - in Constantinople, including Pa - arch, the Community similarly tion for religious freedom but triarch Bartholomew, heard has a right to know what hap - governments cannot legislate the charges against him in a report pens to the fees assessed on way people think and feel. In this from a three-member Exarchy them by the office of Archbishop respect, the challenge con - team dispatched to New York Demetrios in New York. They fronting Western societies with and said he deserved “ecclesi - should withhold donations until respect to Islam and rapidly ex - astical leniency,” which, of they get some answers on where panding Muslim minorities has course, his (alleged) victims that money goes and who’s become increasingly formidable. never got. Sometimes, it’s said, spending it and why Church Despite the laws protecting mi - politicians, doctors, lawyers and leaders who take vows of norities there has been consid - Church officials circle the wag - poverty are living in multi-mil - erable unease after 9/11 and the ons to protect their own, but lion dollar apartments in Man - subsequent attempted terrorist God only knows. A push by a hattan when most people worry threats and attempts in the few prelates who had some de - about where their next mort - United States, Canada and Eu - gage payment is coming from. rope. Of course, as we’ve seen in the DUTCH TURNING POINT What these tawdry tales scandal in Greece (you need a A case in point was the mur - do is weaken the faith of scorecard to follow them) in - der in 2004, of the Dutch film - volving monks on Mt. Athos maker Theo Van Gogh by a Mus - many and denigrate the (that’s God’s territory so maybe lim extremist in Holland. The real God’s Work he knows where the money’s go - backdrop to this Dutch tragedy AP PHOTO/AKIRA SUEMORI ing) who (allegedly) were in - was the large and welcome in - A Muslim man talks in front of a television camera as police officers stand guard outside the volved in land swap deals with flux of Muslim immigrants from house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Dec. 13, 2010 in the aftermath cency for more severe sanctions Greek politicians that netted the Turkey, Morocco and Arabs from of a Swedish bombing in which police said they believed the suicide bomber lived in Britain. was dismissed and rolled off poverty-vowers hundreds of mil - Paisios like water off a duck’s lions of dollars in pocket money, back, and undoubtedly no hush Greek Orthodox priests and money was spread around. The monks are better financial plan - Bishop – who said Paisios made ners than Wall Street hedge What American Needs, a Three-Year Presidential Term a pass at him too when he was fund traders, and just as rich so 17, just getting in under the cut - maybe they can make donations off age of 18 when he’d no to us instead of the other way U.S. President Barack Obama diminutive ones how do we know HERE’S THE ANSWER longer be desirable – said he around. looks tired. Very tired, and gray. such James Madison that system didn’t A three-year term, however, fears for his life now that he’s Privileged people in High Of - In fact, so do most presidents could never get work? For one is as close to ideal as possible. opened his mouth. fice have always enjoyed a kind after they’ve been in office for a elected, does our thing, George Presidents can do a lot in three Those are only allegations of immunity against charges of while. Jesse Ventura, the pro - model of a four-year Washington is her - years. Sure, it’s not an even from a Bishop who has nothing sexual harassment or abuse, fessional wrestler-turned-gover - presidency make alded as our first number, but why does every - to gain and everything to lose from the disgraced former Pres - nor, famously said that he sense anymore? Af - president every - thing have to be in twos or by talking, although a man in ident of Israel charged with would never want to be presi - ter all, how can where – from fours, anyway? Imagine if his position should have known rape, to South African President dent because all those guys go Presidents hold the Jeopardy to Obama were up for re-election what was going on in the Jacob Zuma, a polygamist and into the job looking good and world’s most stress - Wikipedia – and next year. He would really have Monastery so he has some serial lecher, now suing a British come out looking terrible. When ful job day in, day hardly anyone has to work overtime to turn his im - ‘splaining of his own to do, and newspaper for a cartoon show - thinking about politicians who out for four whole even heard of the age completely around. And Paisios is invited to say the ing him about to rape a figure stayed in the game too long for years, and yet be ex - by CONSTANTINOS E. seven who techni - what if he did so and was re - charges aren’t true. We tried representing justice, to former one election too many, George pected to look as re - SCAROS cally were our first elected? that when our intrepid religion U.S. president Bill Clinton, who H.W. Bush – the elder – readily laxed as if they had presidents. They In that case, Obama would writer Theodore Kalmoukos, showed you can have your cigar comes to mind. In his Vice Pres - been basking in the Special to were John Han - head into his second White who broke this story (and many and smoke it too, although in idential debate against Geral - sun on a tropical The National Herald son, Elias House stay with 25% less wear similar others about the church his case you didn’t need a hu - dine Ferraro in 1984, Bush dis - beach the whole Boudinot, Thomas and tear than if the had worked and has more power than the midor, so why shouldn’t priests played a magnificent burst of time, laying on a hammock and Mifflin, Richard Henry Lee, a four-year term. If Americans Patriarch) called Paisios, who and the Church hierarchy get energy not equaled before or sipping a drink through a co - Nathaniel Gordman, Arthur St. had that kind of reduction in fled, or rather slowly traveled, the same deal? The others only since in a debate of that nature. conut? Claire, and Cyrus Griffin – need their workweek, they’d be going to Athens, where he now hides have money and power to pro - In 1988, his voice resonating If a four-year stretch is too I say more? How about a two- to work from about 10-5:30 (typo: resides) and asked him tect them while God is appar - with indignation, Bush de - long, then, how short should the year term, then? Still too short. Monday through Thursday, and to do that and got the phone ently looking over Paisios’ shoul - nounced all modern-day liberals Presidential term be? One year? Presidents need a year or so to have a long weekend every hung up in his ear, the act of an der, which must be a novel as his opponent, Michael No, that doesn’t work, we al - get their programs underway, week. innocent man, who seems cock - position for the Metropolitan. Dukakis, stood by rather idly ready tried it. Before the Con - and it is rare for their policies Why, that’s almost as good a sure of himself and can wave Greece’s best writer, the late and virtually devoid of emotion. stitution was written, in 1787, to yield any meaningful results, workweek as in Greece! Surely, his Ecclesiastical Leniency to Nikos Kazantzakis, warned But by 1992, after four years at the United States had operated positive or negative, in such a one less year of mileage on a prove it, much like someone against Oi Papathes and the the helm, Bush was simply all for seven unsuccessful years un - fleeting period of time. If a term President would bode well as who spends time in an insane Church who hated him and tuckered out. He was so lethar - der the Articles of Confedera - were only two years, the most far as having an effective second asylum, is discharged and has feared him almost as much as it gic that a cartoon version of the tion, and had seven Presidents popular presidents in recent term – especially since that sec - the papers to prove he’s not does Mr. Kalmoukos today. debates easily could have por - of the United States before memory, Ronald Reagan and Bill ond term would only be another mad. Kazantzakis was excommuni - trayed him sporting toothpicks George Washington, each of Clinton, probably never would three-year one. If you were a priest, you’d cated in 1955 after publication propped against his eye sockets whom served one year. And have been reelected. And what if Obama did so rather have the Mafia or IRS af - of his groundbreaking novel, to keep his eyelids from slam - well in his second term that he ter you than Pitbull Kalmoukos The Last Temptation of Christ, ming shut. might want to run yet again? and if they had his kind of in - exploring the battle between Our Founding Fathers, bless Should we increase term limits tegrity there wouldn’t be any spirit and the flesh, close com - their brilliant design, could not to three? Why not? After all, the scandals in the church (he told bat that seems to be going in have imagined that in the age candidate would have to be con - me to say that or he’ll get me monasteries and churches now, of television, Presidents would sidered rather outstanding to ac - excommunicated or banned although Church officials said not even be allowed to yawn. complish the presidential hat from giving confessions in a they hadn’t even read the book, Nowadays, our country’s leaders trick. Only one candidate in his - priest’s room late at night.) so it was just retaliation for him cannot even break a sweat or tory has ever even attempted to This mess began to unravel criticizing them. “We come from have a hair out of place, much run for a third term, so it would - when the woman recruited into a dark abyss, we end in a dark less come down with a head n’t exactly be an everyday oc - Paisios’ alleged monastery at abyss, and we call the luminous cold. It is a far cry from 1920 – currence. Who was that candi - age 14, who became a nun, who interval life,” he wrote. the last year of Woodrow Wil - date, by the way? Franklin - according to the Bishop - got Some Greek Orthodox son’s Presidency – when he was Roosevelt: he was elected pres - pregnant by someone in a kind Church priests are allowed to virtually incapacitated and there ident four times, in fact, before of immaculate pre-conception marry while others have the were reliable accounts that his the 22nd Amendment limited before she got an abortion, went scourge of celibacy to deal with, wife, Edith, essentially ran the terms to two. But in today’s aes - to the police and reportedly an unnatural state that’s even country. Nor did Americans re - thetically superficial world, Roo - made the initial charges against more difficult to abide than a alize that the iconic Franklin sevelt – that guy in the wheel - the Metropolitan, who - accord - vow of poverty apparently, so Roosevelt was paralyzed from chair – wouldn’t even have ing to the Bishop - was involved they figure why give up either? the waist down and was con - made it past his party’s primary. with her mentor in group sex In the end, as they get ready to fined to a wheelchair most of too, spreading the fun around. face the dark abyss, the alleged the time. In Wilson’s and Roo - Constantinos E. Scaros is a pub - First though let’s issue a blan - sinners in the Church will face sevelt’s days, there was no tele - lished author and expert in ket that everything here is re - what they’ve always wanted and vision, no Internet, and certainly American presidential history, portedly an allegation or accord - preached others to follow - no cell phone camera to capture with a background in Ancient ing to the Bishop or nun, but God’s Law - and be judged by any compromising moments Greek history. He has taught she laid out, so to speak, a story Him. In the case of some of and post them on YouTube. history, political science, and that the monastery was a kind them you can be sure they won’t In this modern political age, (AP PHOTO/EVAN VUCCI law at New York University, and of Romper Room of priests and be getting Ecclesiastical Le - then - when being telegenic is a U.S. President Barack Obama looks like he’s catching 40 winks served as an Academic Dean at friends and teenage girls and niency. Presidential prerequisite, and during a press conference on the tax cut bill on Dec. 13, 2010 two other colleges in New York. boys kneeling for confession or peculiar-looking fellows such as in Washington and who could blame him with the hours the He welcomes comments at his something else which seems to [email protected] Abraham Lincoln, or extremely job requires? blog at scaros.blogspot.com 12 THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 25-31, 2010

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The Rangos Foundation actively supports various institutions and programs which benefit education, healthcare and humanitarian causes all over the world

ENRICHING MINDS Duquesne University - The Rangos School of Health Sciences Carnegie Mellon University - CMU Information Networking Institute Cooperative Exchange with Athens Institute of Technology Carnegie Science Center - The Rangos Omnimax Theater

ADVANCING HEALTHCARE Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh - The John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center and John G. Rangos - Massimo Trucco Diabetes Center Johns Hopkins University - The John G. Rangos Sr. Life Sciences Building and the John G. Rangos Sr. Professorship of Adult Medicine

ENHANCING LIVES AND PRESERVING HISTORY IOCC - International Orthodox Christian Charities Congressional Medal of Honor Society - CMOH Foundation