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- Lord Byron’s Epic Heroism and his Role in the Greek War of Independence
- Serbs in The Greek Revolution
- Leadership 100 Concludes 32nd Annual Conference with more than $5 Million in Grants
- Alkistis Protopsalti and Dimitris Mpasis to Perform in the US
All posts by Dimitri C. Michalakis
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Stanley Neamonitis: A Great American success story (May 31, 1939 – July 16, 2016)Stanley Neamonitis passed away on July 16, 2016 surrounded by his family at his home in Manhasset, New York. Born in the village of Avgonima, Chios on May 31, 1939, he was the fourth of five children...
- Posted September 13, 2016
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Greek-American success storiesI was speaking to mega-industrialist John Rangos for this issue and I told him I wish I had more time to dig even deeper into the epic and historic circumstances of his life: this is a man...
- Posted September 13, 2016
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Here and There
When I was a kid living on Chios I remember going to the harbor and the “prokimaia” to see people off on the ship that would take them to Athens and the world beyond. The ship was...
- Posted June 26, 2016
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Doing business in Greece and getting the business
It’s startling to hear from an oil expert in this issue that Greece has sizable reserves of oil that might help to bail the country out of its economic morass. It’s not anything new to hear about...
- Posted April 30, 2016
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The Orange Chimera
Of course we have to talk about what’s happening to America in this current presidential election cycle. And it’s not unfathomable. (That doesn’t mean I support him—orange is not my new black.) When you don’t give people...
- Posted March 24, 2016
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LEADERSHIP 100 CHAIRMAN GEORGE TSANDIKOS: THE SON OF A PRIEST SERVING THE CHURCH IN HIS OWN WAYby Dimitri C. Michalakis George Tsandikos is the son of a priest who never felt the calling himself but as chairman of Leadership 100 he helps young men join the priesthood and after working with Leadership for years...
- Posted January 10, 2016
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Moving On
I’ve lived in Brooklyn, New York the majority of my life. I was born in Greece, on the island of Chios, then joined my family in Montreal, Canada when I was seven. Then moved with them to...
- Posted January 10, 2016
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A Greek and a Turk discover they look alike in HIDDEN MOSAICS: AN AEGEAN TALE by Alexander BillinisLike the protagonists of his debut novel, life has been an Aegean odyssey and migration for author Alexander Billinis himself. With a lifelong interest in the region, he’s lived and worked in Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia, traveled...
- Posted December 5, 2015
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Don’t send us your huddled masses yearning to be free?
In the paranoia since the Paris attacks the knee-jerk reaction of the many unfortunate Republican candidates running for president who it seems have hijacked the party (do you people really want a job this intractable—and do we...
- Posted December 5, 2015
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So It’s Been Ten Years
Ten years ago Dimitri Rhompotis, Kyprianos Bazenikas and I met in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at a printing shop to see if we could get a magazine started. The history of the magazine business is fraught with peril and...
- Posted October 26, 2015
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BACK IN THE DAY
A friend of mine came to the United States from Greece back in the ‘50s, around the same time my parents came. And they saw the United States in its fat heyday as truly the promised land....
- Posted September 25, 2015
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Church Lady Extraordinaire, Leadership 100 Executive Director Paulette PoulosPaulette Poulos has an apartment in White Plains but she’s rarely there. “My brother teases me,” she says. “He tells the pharmacy, whatever vitamins you give my sister give me five bottles. I keep a crazy schedule,...
- Posted June 28, 2015
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Madam Ambassador: Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis recounts her groundbreaking role as the first Greek American woman to serve as U.S. AmbassadorAt age 43, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis became not only one of the youngest women ever to serve as a U.S. ambassador, but also the very first Greek American woman. A powerhouse businesswoman and mother of two, her...
- Posted June 28, 2015
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Onassis executive, Greek Aviation and Shipping Pioneer Paul J. Ioannidis tells the epic story of his life in DESTINY PREVAILSPaul J. Ioannidis, now 91, says the greater purpose of writing the book of his life was “to record some events involving the Onassis family that were heretofore unknown or which were not know to the wider...
- Posted June 28, 2015
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Public service
In one of his books the great Harry Mark Petrakis described the guile of his mother, the wife of a parish priest with little means, in stretching their own meagre food budget to accommodate all sorts of...
- Posted June 28, 2015
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Of fascinating lives
I’ve been reading two fascinating books lately: one a stirring account of an epic life in both public and private service; and another a frank and surprisingly-intimate account of an accomplished woman’s service to her country abroad....
- Posted May 18, 2015
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Altar boys forever
I visited my old church in Brooklyn recently, where I once served as an altar boy, and it pretty much looks the same: only with central air conditioning now (instead of the sauna we had to endure...
- Posted April 11, 2015
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Is this truly the winter of our discontent? Formal history seems to function in cycles—in America, the Democrats had the House and Senate and the White House and the public thinks they made a mess (or are...
- Posted February 18, 2015
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Doing business with Filotimo on Wall Street: Michael Psaros of KPS Capital PartnersIt took a young Greek of the old school to make filotimo a business model and a kid brought up in the steel mills of West Virginia to co-found a Wall Street private equity firm that has...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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Christmas past, present, and future
Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Christ and new hope in the world and it’s also a time to spend time with family and see kids rejoice not only in their presents but in...
- Posted December 24, 2014
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Gallo winemaster remembers odyssey from CyprusGeorge Thoukis came to study wines in America and decided to stay His father Kyprianos was a distiller of ouzo and brandy in Cyprus and his mother’s family owned vineyards. And when George Thoukis graduated high school...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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Going home to Kourounia
As I get older and the world seems increasingly to implode (climate change, ISIS, US governmental gridlock, the resurgent Russian bear, Greece tied up in another Gordian knot of debt and political stasis, and, personally, the aging...
- Posted November 14, 2014
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One Man’s Journey in Greek EducationQueen Elizabeth visited Canada in 1960, and so did a young man and recent graduate of Columbia University’s Teacher’s College in New York, who was being interviewed for the post of principal of Socrates Canadian School of...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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Great Expectations
What makes, very often, the best and the brightest go into politics? A desire to change the world, a quest for power, but once faced with the moral dilemmas of the office (Horse trading the very destinies...
- Posted October 19, 2014
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Conquering Wall Street and possibly Pennsylvania Avenue: Mizuho Securities CEO John Koudounisby Dimitri C. Michalakis So how does a Greek whiz kid from Chicago become the youngest CEO on Wall Street and lead a venerable Japanese bank to an impressive string of victories in the ultra-competitive US market? “First...
- Posted September 13, 2014
