Vartabedian: On Becoming a Backgammon Widower
In the time it takes to say “backgammon widower,” that’s how long it has taken for me to become one. It never used to be that way. Meals were prepared on time. The wash was […]
In the time it takes to say “backgammon widower,” that’s how long it has taken for me to become one. It never used to be that way. Meals were prepared on time. The wash was […]
The Armenian Weekly January 2010 Magazine I’m what you may call an editor’s man. That’s because I’ve been surrounded by them throughout the annals of time, whether it’s been the Hairenik/Armenian Weekly, my own working […]
There I was in Disney World, dining with my grandchildren at one of those character breakfasts, when a duck waddled over to our table. “Daisy!” I yelled, loud enough for the whole place to hear. […]
Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is famously noted to have said something to the effect of, “Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth.” That’s part of what happened in Massachusetts. The Republican […]
In recent months, as heated debates raged on the Armenia-Turkey protocols, Diaspora Armenians reacted with frustration and anger at the damage these agreements would have caused to Armenian national interests. While Armenia’s leaders have the […]
So that’s the Clue Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. …Suzanne Necker From the Word Lab Walnut: The foreign nut; called in M.E. walnote, from O.E. wealh, foreign. It came from Persia, […]
The show is finally over! The international community is no longer buying the endless Turkish excuses for refusing to ratify the protocols. Armenian officials, who naively believed that Turkey would open its border and establish […]
You can say it with flowers all you want. With me, I’d rather say it with chocolates. I’ve never known a rose to taste good, much less a rhododendron or any other kind of species […]
After months of bickering among Armenians the world over about the Armenia-Turkey protocols, the Constitutional Court of Armenia on Jan. 12 pronounced its judgment on whether the obligations stipulated by the protocols comply with the […]
Clever Analysis The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. …Henry Ward Beecher Daffy-nition Obstinacy: The strength of the weak. […]
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