John Kerry is ahead for the democratic nomination
for the 2004 presidential elections .


George Papandreou is the new PA.SO.K. leader.


We lost Wim Blok...

on Sunday, the 30th day of November of 2003.

Georgian's peaceful revolution brought down the government
of Eduard Shevardnadze. Nino Budzhanadze is assuming interim
leadership until National Presidential elections are held. Mikhail
Saakashvili is the main opposition leader and the most likely to
succeed Shevardnadze.
   

The United States is to set Iraq's Governing Council a six month
deadline to come up with a constitution that would lead to elections
and a new government next year.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the New York Times the deadline would be
difficult but it was necessary to get the interim Iraqi leadership moving. Truth of
the matter is that, with US elections approaching, the situation in Baghdad worsening
and President Bush's popularity plumetting, only a withdrawal from Iraq or a new
invasion would possibly appease the irritated US voters.

The UN headquarters in Baghdad have been attacked . UN special
envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello lost his life along with many other
UN officials .
 

Palestinians keep perpetuating the cycle of terror in the middle
east despite renewed efforts for a peaceful settlement...


More than 10 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Nicosia wall
seems to be crashing down as well! Way to go Cyprus and way to go
old Europe...

Baghdad fell and Tikrit followed suit. Iraq now is under coalition control.
The War in Iraq has ended but peace may again be the toughest challenge...
 

The space shuttle Columbia has broken up on its way to the Kennedy space center.
All seven crew on board are presumed dead.

 The Full text of Cofi Annan's Plan for Cyprus Settlement .

The first ever speech to the Italian parliament by a head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Sweeping reforms are expected in the Chinese Communist hierarchy
with Jiang Zemin giving the reins to Hu Jintao.
 

The left-wing candidate in Brazil's presidential election , Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - known as Lula -
has won a convincing victory in Sunday's run-off.

Learn about the European Union and its forthcoming expansion to
25 (??) countries.




The Israeli Army has been closing in on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters for three days,
but he remains defiant.

 

Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson has been re-elected for a new four-year term, as voters
backed his pledge to protect the country's welfare system.  With all but the postal ballots counted,
Mr Persson's Social Democrats and his left-wing allies have won an absolute majority, ending a
string of victories across Europe for centre-right parties.

Nelson Mandela visited Greece to support the idea of Olympic Seasefire
during the Athens 2004 and all subsequent Olympic games.
Here he is with Foreign Minister George Papandreou and with our Mikis Theodorakis:
 

France-Senegal 0-1 in the Korea-Japan 2002 opener!

Jean-Pierre Raffarin is the new interim French prime minister after Jacques Chirac wins a landslide second 
round victory in French presidential elections and Lionel Jospin resigns the post.

Election presidentielle en France: 
La gauche est donc éliminée à l'issue du premier tour, un cas de figure jamais vu depuis l'élection Pompidou-Poher en 1969.

A plane crashed into Pirelli's skycraper in Milano.

Yugoslavia is no more. A deal between Serbia and Montenegro establishes
the loose Union of States: Serbia and Montenegro .

President Mohammad Khatami visited Greece. Here he is on the Acropolis!

President George Bush receives his first Euro coins from prime minister
Kostas Simitis.

It has snowed heavily in Athens for the first time since 1987.

Afghan groups meeting in Bonn have signed a two-stage deal aimed at setting up a transitional government.

The U.N. and Secretary General Coffi Annan were awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize . At the same time
the war against terrorism in Afghanistan is at its peak.

Yasser Arafat is visiting Athens and spoke in PA.SO.K. 's symposium.

The bombing of Afghanistan has begun under Operation Enduring Freedom .

The New York trade center disaster of September the 11th 2001

Frantisek Matus gave two excellent talks while visiting Iowa State.
Richard Varga gave a talk at C.W.R.U.'s colloquium.
Alexander Koldobsky was on the Case Western Reserve campus.
Alexander Abian passed away July the 24th 1999.
Mike Barr of McGill University was visiting Charles Wells in Oberlin and stopped by Case Western Reserve.
J.F.K. Jr. is no more.
Another war is over and peace does not look too promising...
Death of a king
Dan Klain from Georgia Tech was visiting Cleveland. He has completed his Ph.D. under the guidance of Gian-Carlo Rota at M.I.T.
The 1999 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Antonio is here.
For the 1998-1999 academic year I will be teaching at the Department of Mathematics of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
The grandeur of the  European football  versus the misery of the South American: France smashed Brazil 3-0 in an unforgettable evening at Saint-Denis.
The  World Cup  is under way...
Learn something about  Quantum Computing and Quantum Complexity Theory  before they become the standard...
The  1998 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting  of the A.M.S. was held March 20-21 at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.
The  1998 World Cup  is coming up. Tune in ...
This very nicely written book is strongly recommended.
Alexandr Pinus from Novosibirsk State Technical University is visiting Ames. (January, 26-28)
We all met in Baltimore, January 7-10. Saunders Mac Lane was there...