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A woman helps...
A woman helps with preparations for Athens's third Anti-Racism Festival that began at Goudi Park yesterday. The three-day festival, which aims to raise awareness about the problems faced by immigrants, features concerts by popular singers including Alkinoos Ioannidis.
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Penchant for the trivial
Michalis Liapis's impropriety was a moral one.
A transport minister should not travel with his ministry's suppliers, or with the owner of a firm that is competing with the national carrier, Olympic Airways. There is a conflict of interests involved that casts shadows over the entire government.
The government's impropriety is political, in that it allowed the issue to drag on for two weeks and the minister to make public information that was incomplete... |
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Urban lab
The growing desperation with which Athenians watch their surrounding mountains for any sign of smoke is an indication of how degraded life in the capital has become. A year ago, most of the pine and fir forest on Mount Parnitha was destroyed by a fire that started on the other side of the mountain and, through incompetence and mixed signals on the part of the authorities, was allowed to rage out of control. This year, on June 26, a fire broke out in the lush pine forest on the northeastern slopes of Mount Hymettus, among the last bits of a major reforestry project carried out largely by volunteers after World War II, during which the mountain was denuded by Athenians searching for firewood. |
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