CORNELL GRAD LEADS GREEK COUP(excerpt from Cornell Alumni Magazine)
An unverified source in the Greek capital, Athens, reports that a group of disaffected playboys led by Achilles Arindopolos, ’97 seized power today in one of the cradles of civilization, a country also considered to be the actual birthplace of democracy. The Greek embassy in Washington would not verify or deny this report.
Arindopolos, who graduated with a BA in international relations from Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center, is heir to a major Adriatic shipping fortune. Classmates describe him as a "serious student of Machiavelli” but also a world class partier who was known for throwing lavish gatherings on his yacht The Prince while he attended Cornell.
“Achilles liked to be in charge of everything down to the smallest detail. He felt he had to decide everything -- from where what videos we rented down to what girls we invited to our frat parties. I think it bothered him that he had to go back to Greece and just be an ordinary businessman, you know, expected to date beautiful women, drive expensive sports cars, and just sail around in his yacht. He really wanted to run a country. That’s my opinion. He was always borrowing books on Mussolini from Olin.” A former roommate told this reporter in a phone interview.
Arindopolos has been linked romantically with a number of high profile Hollywood starlets like Jessica Alba and Eva Mendes. Last year he was seen squiring beautiful Eva Longoria to a screening of the film version of the Battle of Thermopylae, the famous clash in which 300 Spartans went to their death defending a strategic mountain pass against the Persian army.
“Achilles was always fascinated by power.” Prof. Howard Smirk, Arindopolos’ senior advisor, remembered. “He wrote his thesis on how Mussolini used Machiavelli in his doctoral dissertation.”
Witnesses of the early morning coup recall seeing a number of shiny black Lexi loaded with what appeared to be partygoers pull up to the Greek parliament building and other strategic centers in Athens, followed by a busload of uniformed private militia wearing armbands feauring a red swoosh.
A Cornell professor and authority on Balkan politics, Demetri Rassikilov, told the Magazine, “It’s not yet clear how what’s being dubbed as The Playboy Revolution will effect US/Greek relations. Arindopolis is well connected socially with people who know people in Washington. .”
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