Expatriate Games: From Red Hook to the Acropolis
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Brooklyn-born Yvette Jarvis has been dubbed the "Black Gazelle" and "Chocolate Aphrodite" in her adopted home of Greece. A former model, actress, and pro basketball player, Jarvis was recently elected to Athens City Council. This week she's in New York for the Greek Independence Day Parade and to be honored by the Brooklyn Borough President. Also on the show: the most influential columnist in the world, Tom Friedman, and how "shock and awe" became a war of attrition.
Let Friedman Ring
Thomas Friedman, columnist for the New York Times and author of Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002), searches for the roots of Arab hatred for America.
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