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EDITORIAL |
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Education reform
The problem of Greece's education system has developed into a festering wound. Sporadic reforms have all failed and individual «corrective measures» have created a scrappy system. The allegedly free educational system is shored up by mounting outlays on private coaching colleges, private lessons and private schools. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Offspring of improvidence
Here is one view of how to govern: Chart the places at high risk for flooding (250 in the capital, according to a count by the Athens Prefecture), map the pileups on national roads, and, during the summer fire season, note the high-risk zones that lie next to legal garbage dumps - or illegal dumping sites. |
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OPINION |
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Reality TV’s POWs
The contestants of «Survivor» on Mega Channel were last year made to eat worms. This year, their trials have become a veritable torture: They are buried in the sand, obliged to hold their breath under water and locked up in cages under the hot sun.
POWs are protected by the Geneva Convention, but for the prisoners of reality television every degradation is legitimate and acceptable.
«What is this, a contest, a sport? It debases you, it shatters your nerves.» «Every shred of self-respect is lost in here.» The players complain but make no attempt to escape. |
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