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"Greekgate" and "Italygate"
Two pieces aired on Al Jezeera's "People and Power" program, "Greekgate" and "Italygate" investigate two big cover-ups and possible murders in the European countries. In "Greekgate," the author looked at "the biggest espionage scandal in Greek history, involving the wiretapping of leading members of the government including the prime minister," leading to the mysterious death of the head of the network's technical operations. "Italygate" reported on the death of Adamo Bove, the head of security at Telecom Italia, who died under mysterious circumstances.
Tags: scandal; cover-up; wiretapping; Greek; espionage; death; murder; policeman; Adamo Bove; Military Secrete Services
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The world's top art cop; looted antiquities?
Artnews reports on Italian art investigations aimed to protect the country's antiquities. The first piece profiles "Roberto Conforti, head of the Italian art and antiquities police, the largest such force in the world." The second story sheds light on a finding by the Italian investigators that antiquities exposed in American museum and worth millions of dollars have been illegally excavated from Italy in the 80s and 90s. Italy is pursuing claims for the objects and threaten to block important loan agreements with museums, Eakin reports.
Tags: smuggling; looting; ancient Greek statues; archeology; Hellenistic silver; terra-cotta; Metropolitan; Princeton University Art Museum; Fleishman Collection
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Greek Letters Don't Justify Cult-Like Hazing of Pledges
Hazing in college fraternities and sororities can result in an environment not unlike religious cults according to author Hank Nuwer. Based of research done since 1978, Nuwer makes the case for comparing campus Greek Life to cults and offers ways to solve the problem.
Tags: education; fraternities; sororities; Greek Life; higher education; colleges; universities; cults
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Demoulas vs. Demoulas
A Boston Globe investigation looks at the most expensive and most protracted lawsuit in the history of Massachusetts: the court "battle over a $2 billion supermarket fortune" fought by the heirs of the Demoulases, a Greek immigrant family. One of the member of the family, Telemachus Demoulas, was accused of stealing stock and property in DeMoulas Supermarkets from his dead brother's estate, widow and children. The litigation process destroyed the family and entangled the state's legal community, the story reveals.
Tags: courts; justice; lawyers; stocks and bonds; assets; immigrants; accounting; banking; inheritance; investigators; FBI
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New Scrutiny for Powerful Greek Systems
The Chronicle of Higher Education examines controversies surrounding the today's Greek system. The reporter finds that fraternities and sororities often promote racist and sexist attitudes. The story exemplifies the findings with two incidents - the rejection of a black student by all white sororities at the University of Alabama, and the distribution of a sex newsletter by a fraternity at Dartmouth College.
Tags: students; faculty; rush; fraternities; sororities; volunteer service; segregation; racism; minorities
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Addicted to danger
On assignment for 60 Minutes to film the terrorist camps in Afghanistan bombed by the U.S. last August, freelance cameraman and full-time adventurer Carlos Mavroleon was found dead in a Pakistan hotel. His death was ruled a heroin overdose, but was the Eton-and Harvard-educated son of a Greek shipping magnate a casualty of the Islamic war on America?
Tags: Osama bin Laden
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A Separate Peace
Daily Eastern News reports that "What we discovered in this 11-part series reflects a reality (at Eastern Illinois University) that also is prevalent in the general population. Diversity, as a concept is easy to speak of but difficult to grasp or apply. Many of our problems with race aren't tangible, but instead stem from social hang-ups that have endured for centuries.... It analyzes our hidden prejudices and our subtle disdain for those who are different.... In all, the series takes historic myths and counters them with facts; it makes us look at where we've failed in diversity and confronts us with the contemporary issues that we have yet to address..."
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The most powerful fraternity in America
Esquire Magazine investigates a secret student organization called Theta Nu Epsilon (the Greek initials spell ONE) at the University of Alabama that controls student government and life on the campus; the group's membership is secret and is made up of a select representative from each white fraternity.
Tags: College; University of Alabama; Greek organizations; Greek life; fraternities; politics
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The Greek Tragedies
Philadelphia Inquirer story about college fraternities describes dozens of deaths, injuries, and gang rapes resulting from hazing and occurring at fraternity parties across the nation; looks at the history of fraternities and reports some schools are now eliminating them from campuses, Oct. 23, 1988.
Tags: Ecenbarger; Greek; Fraternities; College
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Watergate - The Greek Connection
The Nation puts forth a new theory on the motive behind the Watergate break-in; this theory involves illegal campaign contributions from a Greek-American tycoon who was rewarded with lucrative government favors and contracts, May 31, 1986.
Tags: Watergate; Richard Nixon