My brother David Sheppard carries the middle name Alexander, named after his Uncle Alexander Sheppard, a man he had never met but who he had heard vague family stories about having a connection with Greece during the war. David married his beautiful, first-generation Greek bride Betty – daughter of Katerina and John Kostoulias – and several years later when their son John was born, they gave him the middle name of Alexander. Until recently our family knew nothing of the deep personal and emotional connection that John’s Great Uncle Alexander had to Greece, and that he was widely known as “The Man Who Loved Greece”.
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Raúl Castro has relinquished his post as General Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. The government speaks of continuity, and only continuity. A woman walks near a poster of the Eighth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in Havana, on May 3, 2021. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
The following essay by Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura was written in the weeks preceding the Eighth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, held from April 16 to 19. At the congress, Raúl Castro stepped down from leadership of the party and his successor Miguel DÃaz-Canal was elected. The essay was originally published in Nueva Sociedad
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