Word: greeks
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DIED. JOHN LATSIS, 92, last of the Greek shipping magnates from the postwar era, who, with a relatively low profile, spent much of his $5.4 billion on charitable works that included financing a Greek translation of the Koran and sending a 20,000-ton cruise ship to temporarily house 900 Greek earthquake victims; in Athens. Born in a fishing village, the onetime deckhand bought his first freighter in 1938, later expanding into an empire of ships, banks, oil refineries and construction companies...
This June, TraveLeaders Group, a Coral Gables, Fla., travel-management company and travel agency, is planning a seven-day Big Fat Greek Cruise, which will sail from Venice to the Greek isles. Inspired by last year's runaway hit movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the theme trip, on First European Cruises, will feature conversations with some of the film's stars, Greek food, Greek culture and dancing, and "some plate smashing," says chairman Keith St. Clair. TraveLeaders expects 150 to 200 guests, and the average cost per person will be $1,000, not including airfare. The agency is promoting...
...trademark Leica cameras for a couple of assignments - his 1994 portrait of France's beloved priest of the poor Abbé Pierre is in the retrospective - but he essentially retired from his peripatetic photographic career nearly 30 years ago. He stopped, he said, when a longtime mentor, the Greek-born critic and art publisher Teriade, told him that he had gone as far as he could go in photography, and he agreed: "I knew I had nothing more to say. I felt it." Since then, he has devoted his time to painting and drawing, working on life-model nudes...
...Stubborn Wall Melts Away CYPRUS One morning last week, Tina Pantakis, a pensioner from the Greek Cypriot town of Limassol, dressed in her Sunday best and rummaged through old photographs. She was looking for pictures of her ancestral village, Vassilia, which she had not seen in nearly 30 years. She wanted to be sure she recognized it. Pantakis was among more than 10,000 Greek and Turkish Cypriots who last week took advantage of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash's surprise decision to open the border that has divided the island since 1974. "Now that it is finally happening," Pantakis...
Professor of Greek and Latin Richard Thomas was among many who bristled at defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s initial dismissive response to the looting...