Modern Greek program vanishes from St. John's University curriculum
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:51:44 -0800

If you had planned to earn your minor in Modern Greek studies or considered fulfilling your [ Greek ] language requirement at St. John's University this spring, think again. In the fall of 2010 Greek-American students at St. John's University found a ...

Greek god movie has an Olympian look
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:45:47 -0800

by Movie Man Immortals Dialogue is god-awful Starring: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff Directed by: Tarsem Singh Rated R: for everything but language , especially gore As expected, Immortals is a visual feast. Director Tarsem Singh is famed ...

More and More Greeks in Australia Give Up Greek Language
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:11:49 -0800

Relevant studies so far have revealed that the Greek language used to rank third on the list of the most widely spoken languages in Australian, after English and Italian. Now Greek ranks fourth, as Chinese is expanding and taking the third place ...

Denise Vasi, Where Have You Been All My Life? (LIST)
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:33:31 -0800

She's of Puerto Rican, Dominican and Greek heritage and began modeling for Ford Modeling Agency at 12 years old. So we decided to break it down for you and let you know 10 reasons why Denise Vasi is dripping swagu. -- When Denise was a young girl she ...

The Greek drachma and our dirham
Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:49:43 -0800

Both the names came to the Middle East when the Roman Empire stretched to Palestine and Egypt. The official language of the Roman Empire in the East was not Latin but Greek . That is why Arabic has so many words taken from Greek , including drachma. ...

Leisure Services Winter/Spring Program Guide Now Available
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:22:05 -0800

UCLS will be once again teaming up with Greek Oak Developmental Center to offer a Valentines Social on Friday, February 10 at the Ruggieri Senior Center. UCLS will also team up with NHUSD to offer its third annual Spring Fling at the Kennedy Center on ...

Hospital interpreter honored by Elgin Hispanic Network
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:43:31 -0800

She hopes to help the interpretation department grow, adding Greek , Laotian or Arabic to the list of in-house languages one day. The goal is to keep improving the level of service, providing a voice for more people as they make such vital decisions for ...

Why we invented monsters
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:06:46 -0800

In Greek myth, one finds Polyphemus, the one-eyed cannibal giant; the Minotaur, a monstrous human-bull hybrid that consumes sacrificial victims in the bowels of the subterranean Labyrinth; and Scylla, the six-headed serpent who wears a belt of dogs' ...

Fitch backs calls for sovereign CDS reform
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:36:05 -0800

James Batterman, managing director in Fitch's credit policy group and one of the report's authors said that while the Greek debt example would not trigger a pay-out under the language of the standardised ISDA contracts for the CDS, creditors have ...

Magazine Cover of Greek Goddess Sets Up International Defamation Showdown
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:00:03 -0800

According to an indictment against German weekly "The Focus," the cover "displays photos of the ancient statue of Aphrodite as deformed" with "a torn flag of the Greek state covering the body ... altering the meaning of the flag. ...

More languages added to curriculum plan
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:37:59 -0800

HINDI, Turkish, Latin, Ancient Greek and sign language have been added to a national plan for language teaching after criticism by Victoria and New South Wales of an earlier draft. Italian and Mandarin will be the first languages introduced, ...

Greek haircut was a "terrible mistake"-ECB's Orphanides
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:07:21 -0800

Sources told Reuters at the weekend that Germany was prepared to soften language in the euro zone's permanent rescue fund that compels bondholders to accept losses in exchange for much stricter budget rules. Orphanides told Cypriot lawmakers that the ...

Found in Translation
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:48:53 -0800

With Homer, the first thing that I do is my homework, looking up the Greek words I don't know and studying the commentaries. I'm left with a bramble of possibilities handwritten on the right-hand page of my notebook and a blank page on the left. ...

Gavin's debut a Delta delight
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:12:37 -0800

Like the Greek classic, this is a tale that begins with a man starting on a clear-cut mission that winds up being a strange journey full of bizarre encounters with weird, colorful, and often dangerous, characters. Unlike Ulysses, Mississippi repo man ...

Fiddling as the euro burns
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:00:52 -0800

... with their state-of-the-art audioguides to get it translated into their own language : as good a demonstration as you could want of the essential fantasy of a federal union, and the enduring nature of national difference. Riot policemen in Greece .

The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen's Union
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:42:39 -0800

On December I, Greek unions led a 24-hour general walkout, protesting the new government's 2012 proposed austerity budget. The day before, November 30, British workers struck, more than 2 million in a near general strike in the public sector; ...

Greece : the EU's Colonial Administrator gives his report
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:44:24 -0800

It claims to be offering 'technical assistance' to the Greeks to help them begin, as today's report puts it, 'a programme of profound structural reform and work towards a more efficient public administration.' In other words , it is a cadre of eurocrats ...

The Political Parties Are Too Democratic
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:07:29 -0800

There is truth in the ancient Greek and Roman preference for the classical mixed constitution, combining the best elements of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy into a stable and enduring form of government. That the current crop of Republican ...

If I Was Making...Wonder woman
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:25:53 -0800

Ideally the language would be Hittite or Luwien, languages of Anatolia, where the Amazons come from but since they are both extinct languages , I'll say Greek . As his eyes open he asks if he's in Cyprus or possibly Crete. After receiving no answer, ...

The genius poet
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:12:55 -0800

Culture shock is inevitable, especially in a foreign language (her Greek is adequate for shopping and going to the playground, but not much more). I think and this is pretty common for foreign women who marry Greeks , and maybe it's true also in ...