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Members of the all-male Greek-American Political Club say they meet at the club house every day after work to relax before dinner...
Last Thursday afternoon, more than 50 older men gathered around brown, plastic-topped tables in the social hall of the club, playing cards, nursing drinks, smoking cigars and swapping stories in Greek. Mirrored walls reflected a bar, a dart board and flyers advertising Greek restaurants and events...
Nikolaos Fragopoulos, the club's president, said the organization's primary purpose is to sponsor lectures and activities which concern Greek-Americans...
...here each night," Delegas said, "Usually I drink Greek coffee--not like Nick [Fragopoulos]. He drinks only white wine...
...FRAMED EPIGRAM IN COLIN POWell's office is from the Greek historian Thucydides. "Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most." Restraint used to be the hallmark of Powell's own style as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Opposed though he was to using force against Saddam Hussein, he was careful in White House meetings before the war never to confront George Bush directly on the issue. But in his blunt dealings with the Clinton Administration over gays in the military and cutbacks in U.S. forces, Powell has been notably less restrained. The change has heated...