JIS Services. Parish Profiles. Jamaica is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the largest English-speaking territory. Situated south of Cuba and west of Haiti in the North West region of the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica has a maximum length, from east to west, of about 235 km (146 mi); the maximum width being around 80 km (50 mi).
George Soros is one of the worldâs foremost philanthropists. He has given away more than $32 billion of his personal fortune to fund the Open Society Foundationsâ work around the world. He is also the founder and primary funder of the Central European University in Budapest, a leading regional center for the study of the social sciences.
In classical Greece, sophrosyne ( soh-froh-soo'-neh ) referred to excellence of character and soundness of mind in a well-balanced individual. This complex ideal has no direct translation into English.Its roots suggest a bringing together (syne) of the qualities of wisdom (sophia)...the subject of the Charmides is, What is sophrosyne? -- and that word cannot be translated by any one English word. The truth is that this quality, this sophrosyne, which to the Greeks was an ideal second to none in importance, is not among our ideals. We have lost the conception of it.