A few months ago, in preparation for his speech at the Fine Minds 4 Fine Wine Conference in Champagne, France, Dr. Beverley Skeggs sent an email to her network. It wasn’t just any network. Skeggs runs a fellowship program on social and economic inequality at the London School of Economics, and she reached out to her 40 fellows around the world to ask what she thought was a fairly simple question: What does good wine mean to you? “I’m still shocked by their responses,” she said of the responses she received. She expected the fellows – many of whom are…
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Dream beaches, incredible cuisine, rich culture: these are just some of the reasons why people fall in love with Greece. Although New York’s coastline may not hold a candle to the Mediterranean, a thriving Greek-American community brings the best of its country to the Big Apple. From Astoria to SoHo, here are six places to experience Greece in New York. This lively tavern serves some of the most authentic family fare, and it’s far from a secret. The original Astoria location and its East Village outpost are almost always crowded, but it’s worth the wait for impressive portions of hearty…
Politicians often extol the virtues of small business as a way to demonstrate support for dynamism and entrepreneurship while distancing themselves from the cruelties of global capitalism and the mega-rich of big CEOs. But it turns out that some of Europe’s most troubled economies are precisely those most dominated by small businesses. And it is not a hazard. An economy in which a large portion of the population works in small businesses is not an entrepreneur-friendly economy, but rather one characterized by widespread corruption and poor regulation. The key to prosperity is not coddling small businesses, but giving people the…
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Scholarships Overview We are offering one-semester continuing admission scholarships in Athens to study abroad at Hellenic American University, an accredited institution in the United States with two campuses in Nashua, New Hampshire and Athens, Greece. The Athens campus is located in the lively Kolonaki district. The university is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and credits are transferable to most North American schools. Students and their academic advisors are responsible for managing all transfer credits. Academic calendar Hellenic American University offers two full semesters: one from September to December and the other from January to…
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Living Learning Communities are common in higher education as intimate, specialized spaces for students seeking to establish community in on-campus residence halls. “The definition of a living-learning community is a dedicated number of beds that are contiguous to each other and have additional resources dedicated to the needs of that community,” says Kathy Bush-Hobgood, vice president of the Association of College and University Housing. Officers. The execution of this can vary, from a few rooms to a single floor to an entire residential complex, but all share a common thread of construction belonging to this shared experience. “These types of…
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For decades, Britain and Greece have been able to disagree, largely politely, over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute: which is the right place for some of the most beautiful ancient Greek sculptures ever made, which were exhibited in London? for more than 200 years but which Greece very much wishes to recover.Diplomacy has failed when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak abruptly canceled a meeting in London planned for Tuesday with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis.Mitsotakis publicly expressed his dissatisfaction. Sunak’s spokesman linked the snub to the fact that the Greek leader used British television the…