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Rowing event goes smoothly
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EDITORIAL |
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Summer reflections
As you read these lines, most of you will probably be relaxing on some beautiful beach on mainland Greece or one of the islands. Some of you will have taken instead to the mountains, back to your homeland and the innocence of childhood. Finally, a considerable number of you will have chosen to stay in your apartments; still at your place of residence and employment but with a sense of summer recess. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Hippocrates in action
The story had a touch of the silly season about it, and a dose of the sympathy which victims of the stock exchange reserve for their fellow victims. A doctor paid a police officer and a thug (or rather two thugs, one of who happened to be a police officer) to persuade a stock broker to return capital the doctor had invested and lost. The two hired heavies did their job as ordered, and then charges were pressed against them.
The precise details of the case are unknown, as are the names of those involved, but everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Having said that, there is nothing at all silly about the incident, which is evidence of an ongoing degeneration that has nothing to do with the extent of the financial loss or the slow workings of justice. |
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