Ivy League

In mid-April of this year, Columbia University, a distinguished member of the Ivy League alongside institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, became the epicenter of significant student protests triggered by the conflict in Gaza, which claimed thousands of civilian lives, including many children.

Across the United States, a groundswell of student protests in solidarity with Palestinians is gaining momentum, sparking both cancellations of classes and clashes with authorities on campuses nationwide.

Just 10 days before Greece's general election, a Wall Street Journal profile depicts New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis as an Ivy League scion of one of Greece's three top political families to whom voters are turning in order to seek refuge in the ostensibly safer harbour of the old political establishment.

The Trump White House isn’t known as a hot spot for Ivy League intellectuals. But last month, a Harvard academic slipped into the White House complex for an unusual meeting.

The Bulgarian high school senior Stefan Stoykov, who had been admitted to all Ivy League universities across the US, has now made his choice.

After scoring a perfect 2,400 out of 2,400 on the SATs, Stoykov had been admitted to virtually any higher educational institution in the US. He is also his school's valedictorian and a winner of the National Merit Scholarship.

A Bulgarian student has been admitted to 18 top US universities, with 8 of them are Ivy League institutions - among the most prestigious schools in the world.

Stefan Stoykov made the news across the ocean with his remarkable accomplishment in a story published by INDYStar.

Never one to eschew the dramatic, FinMin Yanis Varoufakis likened the current situation in (still) recession-plagued Greece with the Great Depression of the 1930s.

In his speech at the Greek-French Chamber, as long as a political solution is delayed, the recession will wear down the common currency and turn the peoples of Europe against each other.