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...father's side of the family is fully, 100% Greek. My grandmother was from Athens, and my paternal grandfather was from the island of Kalymnos. After he got to the United States, he ran a travel agency that specialized in bringing people from Kalymnos...
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Guilty or innocent, the potential loss of the two biggest Greek stars sent various Olympic officials into a tragicomic spiral of self-pity. "We've been screwed," said a senior Athens organizer. "All the fun has been spoiled. All our efforts for a success have been destroyed...
...world that stretched over the heads of the athletes. It was the largest printed photograph ever. Bjork was followed by Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, the woman widely credited with saving the Athens Games from their own inertia in 2000. Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who smiles even when she's not smiling, got Greek pride going again and welcomed the world to the party...
...intensity and duration of a guerrilla war in Iraq." The Army wants to award a contract to the Dupuy Institute, a Washington-area think tank, by the end of the month. The institute will be asked to study "casualties from various guerrilla conflicts in the 20th century," including the Greek civil war, the Malaysian insurrection and the Indochina war (the Vietnam War isn't specifically mentioned), the contract announcement says. Charting the death and destruction of those conflicts should tell the Pentagon "if the casualties in Iraq will decline over time, increase over time or remain at a steady state...