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...Dwight Nikola Cooper...
...During my first six weeks, I have been asked to leave on a few occasions, not often," says Nikola D. Simunovic '98. "There were times when I was in the middle of something...
...northwestern Greek town of Lia. It was not uncommon for married immigrant men to settle in America before sending for their families, although Gatzoyiannis took much longer than most. He returned periodically to Greece, where he played the rich American and sired four daughters and the author, born Nikola. During one of the visits, the delivery business was sold by an untrustworthy partner. Gatzoyiannis lost his assets and momentum and became a restaurant cook...
...Nikola, his father's biggest failing was not getting his family to the U.S. in time to save Eleni. The resentment colors Gage's transformation from a greenhorn with an unpronounceable name to an American success story bylined Nicholas Gage. Only when the author has his own family does he come to understand the difference between a mother's love and a father...
...those children was eight-year-old Nikola. Transported to the U.S. to join a father he had never met, the boy discovered the cathartic power of words when he wrote a school essay about his mother's death. He took the name Nicholas Gage and grew up to become an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Gradually, the grief of his childhood returned as an obsession. In 1979 Gage quit the newspaper to learn how and why his mother had been killed. He planned a crime of vengeance. He failed at that...