by Bob Newell | Nov 26, 2012 | Opinion
If 9:30 p.m. seems past a small child’s bedtime, you know you are not in Greece. When my Greek friends tell me that Greek schedules are about three hours behind other countries, I know they are not talking about time zones, but about a generalized Grecian...
by Bob Newell | Oct 11, 2012 | Opinion
In response to the crushing economic crisis in Greece, I have been working to improve my greatly underutilized capacity to empathize with my Greek and Albanian friends. As I have turned up the volume on my faulty hearing and labored to hone my otherwise distracted...
by Bob Newell | Jun 25, 2012 | Opinion
The Greeks held another national election on June 17 and it now appears that a coalition government can be pieced together. It is not yet clear, however, what, if anything, the fragile, politics-makes-strange-bedfellows confederacy government will be able to do about...
by Bob Newell | Jun 5, 2012 | Opinion
On the first Sunday in May, voters in the economically troubled country of Greece went to the polls and clearly demonstrated to the rest of the world just how fragmented and divided this birthplace of democracy has become. The two historically dominant political...
by Bob Newell | Apr 24, 2012 | Opinion
In 1623, just eight years before his own death, the English metaphysical poet John Donne wrote several works that were published under the not-so-spiffy marketing title, “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.” While few of us can recall most of what Donne...
