S o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v a weekly greek-amerIcan PublIcatIon www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 18, ISSUE 907 February 28 - March 6, 2015 $1.50 The Conversation: the Greece Suspends its Pro Soccer League 1 Week End of Life Discussion Indefinite Timeline is Reduced Even Amid By Dr. Angelo Volandes More Violent Episodes By Constantinos E. Scaros medical procedures when they By Andy Dabilis have an advanced illness,” Informing patients in their Volandes emphasizes, “and the ATHENS – A day after saying golden years about potential vast majority of Americans pre - Greece's battle-scarred profes - end-of-life options through easy- fer to die at home in comfort sional soccer league would be to-understand videos, resulting and outside of the hospital. The suspended indefinitely, the gov - in shared decision making, is at book stems from my firm belief ernment said it would last only the core of Advanced Care Plan - that although Americans receive for a week, even as more vio - ning (ACP), whose Founders are some of the best health care lence broke out at a second-di - Doctors Angelo Volandes and money can buy, they also expe - vision game. Aretha Delight Davis, who are rience some of the worst deaths The suspension was scaled also husband and wife. in the developed world. The pri - back after league and club offi - Dr. Volandes spoke with TNH mary reason we experience such cials, as they have before with about ACP and his related book, horrible deaths is doctors' fail - no results, promised to find The Conversation. ure to openly discuss medical some way to end violence in the “For years as a physician,” care with seriously ill patients stands, on the field, and be - says Volandes, who holds a MD and to have The Conversation. tween team officials who are from Yale and a MPH from Har - THE GREEK WAY punching each other out and en - vard, about why he wrote The American-born to Greek par - gaging in screaming melees. Conversation, “I had been car - ents – his father from Laconia After his second meeting of ing for seriously ill patients who and his mother from Chios – the day with Prime Minister were admitted to my hospital. Volandes distinguishes between Alexis Tsipras, Deputy Minister Many of my patients with ad - American and Greek end-of-life for Sports Stavros Kontonis an - vanced illnesses were dying in care for the elderly: “When it nounced that the Super League the hospital, often tethered to comes to dying and old age, action of this coming weekend machines and in pain. As I cared there is a vast difference be - aP Photo/oreStIS PanagIotou, Pool is suspended, but all other for them, I realized that none tween the average family in the A Political Symphony of Sorts, in Athens leagues and cups will carry on of their physicians were talking United States compared to the as scheduled. openly with them about their average family in Greece. In the Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, left, listens to Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis during “The decision of the govern - wishes for medical care and United States, our society still their meeting in Athens, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Tsipras is facing dissent within his left-wing ment regarding the combatting whether or not they wanted ad - pursues the denial of death and Syriza party over claims it is backtracking on its recent election-winning promises to ease budget of violence is definitive and ir - vanced life support interven - aging by searching for the next cuts for the recession-battered Greeks. revocable. It is impossible to tol - tions. new thing in age regeneration erate business interests devel - “The fact is most Americans or avoiding our ultimate fate, oped in the field of sports prefer not to have aggressive namely, death. I think this per - because this runs counter to vasive theme of avoiding death sports and the fans," he said. accounts for a good deal of why Calomiris’ Radical Advice to SYRIZA "All that happened in match end-of-life care in this country at [the Apostolos Nikolaidis Sta - is so poorly delivered. dium between Panathinaikos “The average family in By Constantine S. Sirigos During an interview with The the debt overhang, have been and Olympiacos], where it was Greece has a very different un - TNH Staff Writer National Herald, Calomiris said overemphasized in media head - only thanks to a miracle that we derstanding of the role of death he would be happy to present lines. “Fixing those will not fix did not have any dead people, and aging. I feel that there is a NEW YORK – From the Ancient Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras unemployment,” he said. as well as everything that hap - general acceptance in the cul - Greeks to modern-day Ameri - with a blueprint for a new Calomiris is talking about or - pened at the board meeting [of tural fabric in Greece of the fact cans, those two cultures have Greece. thodox economic theory, but the Super League] have created that some day we will age and been beacons of freedom and The young prime minister Tsipras and his comrades pre - a terrible atmosphere,” said die. This stems directly from achievement. So, it should not would first have to accept a fa - sented a different approach to Kontonis. Socrates, who argued that phi - come as a surprise that Greek- miliar diagnosis and prescrip - the Troika during the recent ne - He was referring to brawls losophy is ultimately a prepara - American economist Charles tion: the cause of the crisis is gotiations. And it is not just between police and Panathi - tion for death. What he meant Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Pro - Greece’s falling out of competi - Greece vs. Germany. Even naikos fans at the game where by that is that death is inex - fessor of Financial Institutions at tiveness in the world economy, Greece’s Southern European Olympiacos fans were barred orable and our stance towards the Columbia University Gradu - and the solution is structural re - neighbors who are in the same from attending but where hooli - that fact defines a good deal of ate School of Business, believes forms. boat were unsympathetic. gans ran rampant anyway, firing Dr. Angelo Volandes’ Hellenic our life. The average family in that increasing economic free - Calomiris said that the aus - Tsipras now has an opportu - flares and tossing objects they life experience helps him to dom is the key to getting Greece terity measures, which merely are allowed to bring to games. be a better doctor. Continued on page 6 out of crisis. exacerbated the downturn, and Continued on page 9 “Under these circumstances it is impossible to have games played this Sunday. I have stressed to the soccer authorities in our meeting today that the Process to Oscars Night: and the Winner is… Two Greeks law providing for fan clubs must be enforced,” said the minister. "Next Wednesday we shall Americanize By Constantinos E. Scaros meet again with the represen - tatives of the authorities and see HOLLYWOOD, CA – The 87th what they have implemented Karagiozis Academy Awards (Oscars), held out of what they have promised on February 22 in Hollywood, to do. If the situation remains spread around the award, with the same, there will be another By Steve Frangos no single film making a clean suspension.” TNH Staff Writer sweep. According to Greek law the Birdman won Best Picture, government can only force a CHICAGO- In the early 1900s, and its director, Alejandro one-week suspension each time. as Greek sojourners first began Gonzlez Irritu, was chosen arriving in large numbers to as Best Director. Eddie Redy - Continued on page 10 North America they brought mayne, who starred in The The - their sense of humor with them. ory of Everything, was chosen The venerable Karagiosis (also Best Actor, and Julianne Moore spelled Karaghiozis) puppet tra - of Still Alice was Best Actress. dition found its way, not only to Best Supporting roles went to Former Amb. the new world, but also to com - actor J.K. Simmons for mercial records virtually the day Whiplash and actress Patricia Greek records were made avail - Arquette for Boyhood. Wants More able. For those unfamiliar with The Grand Budapest Hotel, this comedic tradition it involves which was a strong candidate puppet characters seen on a for Best Picture, did not win any U.S. Support back-lite screen. A long estab - of the top awards, but tied with lished set of characters consti - Birdman for the most overall tute the cast. Most often a lone (four apiece). Former U.S. Ambassador to puppeteer employs a specific Birdman and Budapest were Greece Daniel Speckhard in a type of humorous voice or ac - also the two films to feature Os - February 22 letter to the New cent to signal and underscore car winners of Greek descent. York Times calls which character is being por - Greek-American Alexander for the United States to take trayed. This stereotyping of each Dinelaris, Jr., along with (Best Jordan StrauSS/InvISIon/aP) a more active role in pressuring character by their voice, if you After eight Oscar nominations, including two this year, French-Greek composer Alexandre De - Europe to be more flexible in its will, speaks to a time when Continued on page 6 splat won for Best Original Score this year, for his work in The Grand Budapest Hotel. dealings with Greece. Greeks were in daily contact “If we don’t we are likely to with a whole host of different pay in many other ways for peoples.