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How the world sees Greece
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Greece ETF: No Money, More Problems
The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (NYSEArca: GREK) is no stranger to challenging news flow. Just last week, index provider MSCI announced it will demote Greece to emerging from developed market status becoming ...
Sakina Abdus Shakur '13 Awarded Fulbright Research Grant to Greece
Sakina Abdus Shakur '13 Awarded Fulbright Research Grant to Greece Bryn Mawr Now Portrait Sakina Abdus Shakur '13 has received a Fulbright Research Grant to travel to Greece, where she will study the works of Camus, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and others while conducting interviews with a diverse group of Athenian youth, ages 20-27 ... |
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Jean-Claude Juncker on Greece, Europe and the crisis [full interview]
Jean-Claude Juncker on Greece, Europe and the crisis [full interview] Kathimerini Jean-Claude Juncker, the former chairman of the Eurogroup and current prime minister of Luxembourg, tells Kathimerini that he had a battle on his hands to ensure that Greece remained in the eurozone during his term at the helm of the forum of eurozone ... |
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Greece Now, Too? Dow Down 300 on Reports of IMF Threat
Wall Street Journal (blog) | Greece Now, Too? Dow Down 300 on Reports of IMF Threat Wall Street Journal (blog) The details are all a bit murky, but it doesn't matter given the market's mood today. With investors already dealing with the eventual QE taper, as well as a cash crunch in China, the last thing they need is to be reminded of the euro zone's still-not ... |
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Greece restoring confidence in reform program, says Barroso
Yahoo! News | Greece restoring confidence in reform program, says Barroso Yahoo! News VIENNA (Reuters) - Greece is restoring confidence in its economic reform program, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Thursday. "Greece is making progress in terms of recovering the confidence needed for the country to go back ... |
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IMF to suspend aid payments to Greece unless bailout hole plugged
euronews | IMF to suspend aid payments to Greece unless bailout hole plugged Financial Times The International Monetary Fund is preparing to suspend aid payments to Greece by the end of next month unless eurozone leaders plug a €3bn-€4bn shortfall that has opened up in Greece's €172bn rescue programme, according to officials involved in ... IMF threatens to suspend Greece aid: report Greece's government Wobbling along Greece party leaders try again to break impasse over ERT |
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Global Voices: An immigrant's uphill push for a greener Greece
Global Voices: An immigrant's uphill push for a greener Greece Los Angeles Times Sixty years after leaving destitute Greece to pursue the quintessential immigrant's dream of striking it rich in America, Eftichios “Van” Vlahakis is back trying to do business in his again-impoverished homeland. Vlahakis, who at age 18 arrived in ... |
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Maria Menounos Shows Off Toned Beach Body in Tiny Black Bikini During ...
Us Magazine | Maria Menounos Shows Off Toned Beach Body in Tiny Black Bikini During ... Us Magazine The Extra host rang in summer in a tiny black string bikini during a recent trip to Mykonos, Greece on Wednesday, June 19, soaking in the surf and sun with boyfriend Kevin Undergaro and pals. Menounos, who recently celebrated her 35th birthday with a ... Maria Menounos Shows Off Bikini Body in Greece Maria Menounos Sports Black Bikini In Greece Maria Menounos Sizzles In Bikini In Greece (PHOTO) |
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Muffling of a Voice Provokes an Outcry in Greece
New York Times (blog) | Muffling of a Voice Provokes an Outcry in Greece New York Times (blog) ATHENS — The poignant image made its way around the world: A blond violinist, tears streaming down her face as she played Elgar in a studio orchestra of Greece's state broadcaster to protest Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's unilateral decision last ... Greece's public TV still off despite court ruling ERT shutdown: Greece puts pressure on Israeli firm over state broadcaster News Summary: Greece in talks to end TV crisis |
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Greece Downgraded To ' Emerging Market . ' But Will It Ever Emerge ?
Greece Downgraded To ' Emerging Market . ' But Will It Ever Emerge ? Forbes Most of us would agree that Greece is not a “developed market” on par with the United States, Canada or Western Europe. Its instability, pitiful economic governance, corruption and cronyism—all of which contributed to its spectacular sovereign debt ... |
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IMF warns eurozone over Greek aid
International body threatens to suspend aid payments to Athens because of a shortfall that has opened up in rescue programme, say officials
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Maria Menounos Shows Off Toned Beach Body in Tiny Black Bikini During ...
Us Magazine | Maria Menounos Shows Off Toned Beach Body in Tiny Black Bikini During ... Us Magazine The Extra host rang in summer in a tiny black string bikini during a recent trip to Mykonos, Greece on Wednesday, June 19, soaking in the surf and sun with boyfriend Kevin Undergaro and pals. Menounos, who recently celebrated her 35th birthday with a ... Maria Menounos Shows Off Bikini Body in Greece Maria Menounos Sports Black Bikini In Greece Maria Menounos Sizzles In Bikini In Greece (PHOTO) |
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Greece ETF: No Money, More Problems
The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (NYSEArca: GREK) is no stranger to challenging news flow. Just last week, index provider MSCI announced it will demote Greece to emerging from developed market status becoming ...
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NBA Mock Draft: Atlanta Hawks Select Giannis Adetokunbo From Greece
NBA Mock Draft: Atlanta Hawks Select Giannis Adetokunbo From Greece Ridiculous Upside SB Nation's NBA Network conducted a mock draft with bloggers from each team site making or trading their "team's" pick. We continue with the seventeenth pick in the 2013 NBA Mock Draft with Peachtree Hoops selecting Giannis Adetokunbo from Greece. |
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Join us for a Question Time to remember
Russell Brand, Boris Johnson and Melanie Phillips will all be on the BBC programme – share your comments here from 10.30pm
Russell Brand, Boris Johnson and Melanie Phillips will be sharing the same Question Time panel in London tonight … what could possibly go wrong? Will Phillips tell Brand that his opinions are of "dubious worth"? Will Brand do to Phillips what he did to Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC? Does Johnson's famed knowledge of the classics range as far as Get Him to the Greek? The intrepid trio will be joined by Lib Dem Ed Davey and Labour's Tessa Jowell.
Join us in our open thread from 10.30pm to share highlights, agree and disagree and generally get on your moral high horse.
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British Museum explores historic secrets of gay love
Guide to erotic LGBT objects, supported by actor Simon Russell Beale and artist Maggi Hambling, forms part of Pride festival
There is a sculpture of the beautiful face of Antinous, at whose death Emperor Hadrian "wept like a woman"; a battered copper coin showing the poet Sappho, whose surviving fragments of erotic poetry were so intense that the Victorians called all women who loved women after her native Lesbos; and a 20-year-old tin badge demanding, "how dare you presume I'm heterosexual".
The objects are among those detailed in a new guide to be launched this month by the British Museum, tracing a history often hidden within one of the world's great collections.
A Little Gay History by Richard Parkinson, a curator in the ancient Egypt department, together with an audio guide featuring the voices of actor Simon Russell Beale and artist Maggi Hambling, will form part of the Pride festival – which will also include a special showing of the Merchant Ivory film of EM Forster's Maurice, in which the hero finds love in the galleries of the British Museum. Forster wrote the book in the early 20th century but would not allow it to be published until after his death in 1970.
After Antinous drowned in the Nile in AD130, possibly killing himself, Hadrian proclaimed him a god and displayed his image across the empire. His subsequent deep depression may have contributed to his own early death just eight years later. At the museum's blockbuster exhibition on Hadrian in 2008, a survey showed most visitors had no idea of the married emperor's intense feelings for another man.
Parkinson claims that the oldest chat-up line in history can be found in his department: a poem from 1800BC in which one ancient Egyptian male god makes a pass at another, remarking "neferwi-pehwi-ki" – what a lovely backside you have. However he concedes that many of the tender Egyptian images of two men caressing actually depict brothers, and that the graphic images on one papyrus from 950BC, including a god folded up painfully so that he can reach his penis with his mouth, are religious, not erotic, texts.
"Desire leaves no archaeological traces," he writes, making it easy to ignore, miss or misunderstand gay references. "History has all too often been a list of the deeds of famous men who are implicitly 'heterosexual' and usually European … Unsurprisingly, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have often felt excluded and silenced, and without a voice."
The objects Parkinson has chosen, most from the British Museum but some from the British Library, include a drawing by Michelangelo showing the beautiful body of Phaeton falling from his father's sun chariot, which the artist sent to his handsome young friend Tommaso de'Cavalieri. If he didn't like it, Michelangelo promised to make another "by tomorrow evening". Parkinson writes: "The combination of the superb drawing and the elegantly written note to his friend, protesting that it is only a first sketch, embodies an infatuated eagerness to impress a young man in a way that feels instantly recognisable to anyone who has ever been in a similar situation."
He has also included some recent acquisitions, including a 1997 pack of playing cards portraying Japanese drag queens, made by the artist Takashi Otsuka, donated to the museum on condition that it is stored "with the queens on top".
A colourful quilt bought in Pakistan in 1985 is said to have been made by, or for, a hijira, a transvestite, but the curators are not sure if this is actually true. Without the story, the quilt is just a piece of cloth, Parkinson says. "Even with the anecdote, the history of its maker's life remains a blank. For all the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people we can name in history, we must consider how many thousands of others are unrecorded, unacknowledged and unremembered."
In the audio trail, Hambling is particularly struck that Sappho's Greek island home valued the poet enough to put her on its official coinage. "So two Sapphos might be worth a bag of peas?" she ponders. However, looking at some of the museum's huge collection of donated protest badges, she remarks that she personally can't stand being called lesbian, just about accepts lesbionic, but prefers to refer to herself as a dyke.
Russell Beale is awed by the beauty of the Roman silver Warren Cup showing men and youths making love, so startlingly erotic that the first time the British Museum was offered it in the 1950s, it turned it down flat. In 1999, when it came on the market again, the museum had to raise £1.8m to acquire it. "It's just heaven, isn't it?" Russell Beale sighs.
From the British Museum collection
• Marble busts of Emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous, represented as a young god crowned in ivy.
• Treasure chest from New Zealand, made in the 18th century to be suspended so that the intricate carvings, including a stylised scene of oral sex, could be admired from all sides. Polynesian gay sex startled Captain Cook and other early explorers: a surgeon on the Discovery noted in 1779 that the locals often asked if handsome young sailors were the lovers of the officers.
• The Warren cup, a Roman wine cup decorated with scenes of men making love, said to have been found near Jerusalem, owned in the early 20th century by the American art collector Edward Perry Warren, who kept it at his home in Lewes, Sussex, and called it the "holy grail". Bought for £1.8m by the British Museum in 1999, its most expensive single purchase.
• Japanese woodblock print of two men making love – one dressed as a woman, his costume as an actor in the kabuki theatre. They are watched by a tiny figure of a man who has been shrunk by a magic spell but profits by it as a voyeur.
• Pottery lamp from 1st-century Turkey, showing two women having oral sex – though Richard Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History, says it is impossible to tell whether the lamp was made to delight women or titillate men.
• Collection of donated gay rights badges, including one by the cartoonist Kate Charlesworth insisting, "no, it simply isn't true that being a lesbian means you have to keep a cat".
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