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Friday, March 8, 2013

A gripping Greek derby


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A gripping Greek derby
Fifa.com
Any student of Greek history will know that the country has long been a pioneer in many fields. The philosophy of Plato and Socrates among others is a shining example, but less widely-known is that an early form of football was invented in Greece ...


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Female Abuse in Greece


Female Abuse in Greece
Greek Reporter
rape1_420_420 On March 8, the day that marks International Women's Day, some shocking information came to light. According to SOS 15900, a telephone line for immediate advice for all women victims of violence, more than 7,000 women in Greece have ...


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Why Los Angeles Would Be a Cost-Effective and Practical Choice for 2024 Summer Olympics

In trying to help the Olympic Games touch all corners of the globe, the International Olympic Committee has cared little about the internal economic mess that, in some instances, is left behind in the aftermath of international competition.  This happened in cities like Montreal and countries like Greece who invested heavily in infrastructure and facilities but incurred massive debt in the process without much long-run returns on those investments.

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US-Israel-Greek Navies Drill in Med


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US-Israel-Greek Navies Drill in Med
DefenseNews.com
Tel Aviv — Navies from the United States, Israel and Greece kicked off a two-week exercise in the Mediterranean Sea on March 7, the third in an annual trilateral event dubbed Noble Dina. In a March 7 statement, the Israeli military said the drill aims ...
Israel, US and Greece launch joint naval exerciseHurriyet Daily News

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Power plant case sees more Greek officials charged


Power plant case sees more Greek officials charged
Reuters UK
The two officials were among former board members of Greek state utility PPC (DEHr.AT) charged with breach of duty on Friday for commissioning a loss-making power plant, a court source said. They follow a prosecutor's charging of three ministers for ...

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Capital gains levy on Greek stocks may be put off or scrapped


Kathimerini

Capital gains levy on Greek stocks may be put off or scrapped
Kathimerini
The repeatedly postponed imposition of a capital gains tax on Greek stocks might not be implemented at all, helping the local bourse in its struggle to retain its position among the world's mature stock markets, sources have told Kathimerini. A ...


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Greek judicial authorities order trial for former defence minister, family, associates

ATHENS, Greece - Greek judicial authorities on Friday ordered 19 people, including a former defence minister and his immediate family, to stand trial on money laundering charges related to alleged corruption in defence contracts.

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Judge sets auction for Greek Peak assets


Judge sets auction for Greek Peak assets
Elmira Star-Gazette
Assets of Greek Peak, the Virgil ski, snowboard and year-round resort, are to be auctioned March 19 subject to approval of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. The resort's financial troubles began last winter after its loan provider, Tennessee Commerce Bank ...


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Serious Stressors: Natural And Financial Disasters Lead To Widespread Health Woes

The fact that chronic stress, whether psychological or physiological, can lead to serious health problems has long been appreciated. In this vein, two new studies, to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session, show that the significant psychological stress that comes of natural disasters – like Hurricane Katrina – or financial meltdowns – like Greece’s – can significantly affect the heart health of entire populations. And the effects can be felt even years after the disasters occur.

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Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey: The Syrian refugees at Europe's gateway


Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey: The Syrian refugees at Europe's gateway
New Statesman
After relating the story of how he was deposited on the banks of Turkey by border patrol officers in Greece, I assumed my interview with Farouk, a Syrian refugee, was finished. It was twilight, and the shabby cafe on the edge of the tiny Bulgarian ...


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Holocaust trains are jewel of collection of Greek train enthusiast. But are ...


World Jewish Congress

Holocaust trains are jewel of collection of Greek train enthusiast. But are ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Holocaust trains are jewel of collection of Greek train enthusiast. But are they real? By Gavin Rabinowitz · March 8, 2013. THESSALONIKI, Greece (JTA) -- It was spring in northern Greece, 1943. Efthymios Kontopoulos, 13, had come to Thessaloniki for ...
World Jewish leaders to show support for Greek Jews at upcoming events in ...World Jewish Congress

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Greece tempts private equity with high-reward, high-risk deals


Greece tempts private equity with high-reward, high-risk deals
Reuters
Even before the 2009 debt crisis that almost pushed Greece out of the euro, its private equity market was small by European and U.S. standards but now both domestic and international private equity investors are assessing whether the time is right to ...

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Former managers of Greece's PPC facing breach of duty charges


Former managers of Greece's PPC facing breach of duty charges
Kathimerini
PPC commissioned the 250-million-euro natural gas-fired plant at Aliveri in central Greece in October 2007. “The charges were filed against PPC managers who signed the contract but don't name any individual,” the court official said. He said the ...

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1996 Greece hockey team will be honored this weekend


1996 Greece hockey team will be honored this weekend
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The 1996 Greece hockey team will be inducted in the New York State High School Hockey Coaches' Hall of Fame at the state tournament this weekend in Utica. Greece won 3-2 in the semifinals over Suffern and 4-3 over Oswego (with Erik Cole, now of the ...


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Daily Mail's coverage of Vicky Pryce is a script for a movie melodrama

Puns can be fun but they can be cruel too, as Vicky Pryce would have discovered if she dared to read today's national newspaper headlines: the Pryce of revenge, the price of vengeance, the Pryce is wrong.

Scores of pages were devoted to the conviction of Chris Huhne's ex-wife, with the Daily Mail going way over the top by giving the story 12 successive pages plus an editorial.

Calling it a "squalidly tragic saga of modern politics", the leader writer mused on the possibility of film directors queuing up to tell the story. In the event that they do, the Mail has provided all the source material they could ever want for a script.

Every element of a movie melodrama could be found in the Mail's coverage. The lives of Pryce and Huhne were excavated in enormous detail as the paper, peering down with disdain from its moral high horse, poured scorn on them.

Pryce betrayed her sex, her career and her children, wrote the Mail's Carol Sarler. Sure, there is something to admire in women who hit back at unfaithful husbands but what Pryce did "soiled" other women "by extension". Sarler wrote: "No other woman scorned has left us, frankly, ashamed of our own sex."

Huhne - "the sneering public school Trot" - was treated to even rougher treatment in a profile that accused him of several sins: a privileged background, overbearing self-confidence, pompous insubordination, grasping ambition, youthful radicalism, elitism. No brick was left unthrown.

The Mail even wheeled out the former perjurer, Jonathan Aitken, to give Huhne some unwanted advice on how to cope with his inevitable prison term.

But Pryce and Huhne were merely pawns in the Mail's favourite game of bash-the-Lib-Dems. This story played to its political agenda because its real target was the party that dared to go into coalition with the Conservatives.

Aside from two obvious large headlines - "A new Lib Dem cover up" and "Less than 1 in 3 Lib Dem voters still back the party" - the unmistakeable message of the totality of the Mail's coverage was its bitterness towards Nick Clegg and his party.

The only other paper to give anything like the same space to the story as the Mail was The Independent, with eight pages. Its leader argued that marital coercion, Pryce's defence, "should have no place in the British legal system."

A neighbouring article by Mary Dejevsky contended that it was not a criminal trial, but a divorce case by proxy.

Elsewhere, as with the Mail, papers took the opportunity to assault the Lib Dems. The Sun, which carried only two pages, saw the affair as part of "the stink of scandal" affecting the party.

The Daily Mirror asked questions about whether Clegg, his wife Miriam, and business minister Vince Cable had known, and therefore covered up, that Pryce had agreed to accept her husband's speeding points. Its headline, "Shame of the Lib Dem liars", suggested the paper had already made up its mind.

The Daily Telegraph's Allison Pearson concentrated on Pryce's actions, contending that she had "thrown her whole family on to the funeral pyre in order to bring down the man she once loved."

Echoing Sarler, Pearson wrote: "For those of us who followed the trial, the temptation to look away in disgust was strong… Were there any depths this woman wouldn't plumb to save her own skin?"

Zoe Williams, in The Guardian, was only slightly more sympathetic to Pryce's defence of marital coercion, but could not avoid concluding that her forthright public performances as an economist made that an almost impossible argument to maintain.


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Kouvelis Says Austerity Killing Greece


Kouvelis Says Austerity Killing Greece
Greek Reporter
Fotis Kouvelis, leader of the tiny Democratic Left (DIMAR) that is a junior partner in Greece's uneasy coalition government, has told international lenders that the country can't stand any more of the pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions it keeps ...


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Greece police patrol bus stops after man approaches child


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Greece police patrol bus stops after man approaches child
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Officers were called to Maiden Lane near Long Pond Road about 8 a.m. Wednesday, after a man in a sport utility vehicle pulled up to a child waiting for a school bus, said Greece Police Lt. Jason Helfer. A man driving a maroon Ford Explorer with gold ...
Greece police patrolling school bus stopsNews 10NBC
Greece Police Investigate Suspicious Incident13WHAM-TV
Police in Greece Investigating Suspicious Incident on Maiden LaneRochester YNN
Greece Post
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Europe To Woo Chinese Travelers

* 200 mln Chinese seen travelling abroad by 2020 * Europe should exploit Communist history * Spain seeks slice of market By Victoria Bryan and...

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Greece Is Ready For A Comeback

* European tourism seen up 2-3 pct in 2013 * Greece bookings rebound, Alltours sees 30 pct rise * Emerging markets to be main driver...

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Greece Poised To Make A Tourism Comeback


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Greece Poised To Make A Tourism Comeback
Huffington Post
"I also wish that European countries which are famous for tourism get good custom - I name Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy - all countries in which growth is really necessary at the moment and where we have to make an effort to finally get people back ...
Greece to Tourists: We're Open for BusinessFox Business
Angela Merkel asks Germans to vacation in GreeceDigitalJournal.com
Merkel tells Germans to spend vacations in GreeceKathimerini
e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
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The Acropolis Is Closed?

ATHENS, Greece -- Archaeological sites and museums across Greece have shut down for 24 hours due to a strike by Culture Ministry employees protesting planned...

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Acropolis Closed?: Popular Greek Archaeological Sites Shut Down For A Day ...


Acropolis Closed?: Popular Greek Archaeological Sites Shut Down For A Day ...
Huffington Post
ATHENS, Greece -- Archaeological sites and museums across Greece have shut down for 24 hours due to a strike by Culture Ministry employees protesting planned reforms that aim to streamline the ministry's operations. Tourists arriving at the country's ...

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Greek, Gibson 2013 concert schedules unveiled


Greek, Gibson 2013 concert schedules unveiled
Los Angeles Times
Los Lobos, Carly Rae Jepsen, a symphonic tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and a complete performance of English prog-rock band Jethro Tull's “Thick as a Brick” Parts 1 and 2 by the band's frontman Ian Anderson highlight the Greek Theatre ...


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Greek Maritime Claims Rock Boat

Greece has renewed its territorial claims over a swath of disputed waters in the Mediterranean in the hopes of finding vast oil and gas deposits—which risks sparking a confrontation with Turkey.

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