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World’s Greek Billionaires

Anastasios Papapostolou — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:32:46 +0000

Michael Jaharis, George Mitchell, Mike Lazarides, John Catsimatides, George Argyros and Alexander Spanos are the only billionaires of Greek descent on the Forbes list. Spiro Latsis and Phillip Niarchos are the only Greek citizens. FULL STORY

Greek PM in Washington

Anastasios Papapostolou — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:44:47 +0000

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is in Washington this week for meetings with U.S. officials on the European crisis. His agenda – besides economic talks – includes Greek-Turkish relations, and the name dispute with F.Y.R.O.M. The Greek Prime Minister met yesterday with Hillary Clinton and today Tuesday, March 9th, with President Obama at the White House.

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Greek-American Wins Oscar

Anastasios Papapostolou — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:19:47 +0000

Louie Psihoyos is the director of the critically acclaimed film “The Cove”. Psihoyos won an Oscar for his documentary in this years 82nd Academy Awards. We talked exclusively with the Greek-American director of “The Cove” about the threats he faced while he was filming in Japan, and his next steps in film making.

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Greeks at the Oscars

Anastasios Papapostolou — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:13:10 +0000

Tina Fey presented, Sid Ganis organized, and Louie Psihoyos won a golden statue at the 82nd Academy Awards. Also, celebrities of Greek descent, such as Jennifer Anniston and Maria Menounos walked this year’s red carpet.

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Obama Celebrated Greek Independence

Anastasios Papapostolou — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:47:45 +0000

President Obama celebrated the Greek Independence on March 9th this year. The reason for celebrating two weeks earlier instead of the actual day on March 25th is because the President has a very heavy schedule and will be out of the country on the 25th of the month. Greek Prime minister George Papandreou and other government officials and members of Congress were also present at the event.

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Greek-Australian Skier Wins Gold

Anastasios Papapostolou — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:39:36 +0000

Lydia Lassila laid on the snow in Turin four years ago with her left knee shattered while her Olympic hopes faded away. She didn’t give up, although it would have been easy. Four years later she won the gold medal in aerial skiing. Lassila took home the gold in the aerials, Australia’s second gold medal win, after snowboarder Torah Bright won gold in the half pipe, incidentally also at Cypress Mountain.

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Hanks and Vardalos Team Up Again

Anastasios Papapostolou — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:59:13 +0000

Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos are working on a new comedy, called Larry Crowne starring Julia Roberts. The movie is about a middle-aged man who is looking to reinvent himself. Hanks has been writting the scipt with Nia since he came up with the idea in 2006.

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Greek American Wins Gold Medal

Anastasios Papapostolou — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:12:56 +0000

Evan Lysacek is a young Greek-American that filled everyone with pride upon winning his Gold medal for ice skating in 2010 Winter Olympics. He became the first U.S. man to win the Olympic gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988, shocking everyone by upsetting defending champion Yevgeny Plushenko on Thursday night. “It was definitely my best, and that’s what I came here to do,” Lysacek said.

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Giannoulias Wins Democratic Race

Anastasios Papapostolou — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:50:05 +0000

Joined by employees from the Des Plaines Hartmarx suit factory where he helped save 600 jobs, U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias tonight pledged to fight every day to create new, good-paying jobs for the people of Illinois. With 94 percent of the precincts around the state counted, Giannoulias had 39 percent of the vote. Hoffman had 34 percent.

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Fire in Chicago’s Greektown

Anastasios Papapostolou — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:20:31 +0000

Last night a fire swept through Chicago’s Greektown neighborhood. The Chicago fire department rushed over to Costa’s Greek Dining & Bar at 340 South Halsted Street just after 11:30 p.m. Sunday night and fought a 4-alarm fire that was announced ’struck out’ by about 3 a.m. on Monday. The fire continued to spread to a neighboring building that houses Athens Grocery, the Pan Hellenic Pastry Shop and Greektown Gift and Music Shop. FULL STORY