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FRONT PAGE NEWS |
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 Pavlidis case a source of unrest |
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| The government insisted yesterday that it had no prior knowledge of the dispute between former Aegean Minister Aristoteles Pavlidis and a shipowner, as pressure grew on Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to take action over the blackmail allegations.
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| Traffic respite only temporary |
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| Roads in Athens will be at their emptiest over the next few days due to the large number of people who have left the city for their vacations, but transport engineers are warning that from September onward, congestion will only get worse unless changes are made.
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| Faithful email their prayers |
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| Authorities at the Church of the Virgin Mary on the island of Tinos, one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites in the country, say they have received hundreds of e-mails from Orthodox faithful living abroad and in Greece.
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| Helios Airways Flight 522... |
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Relatives of some of the 121 people killed when Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed at Grammatiko, NE of Athens...
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| One dead, one injured at hands of partners |
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| In two cases of extreme domestic violence yesterday, a 67-year-old pensioner murdered his 50-year-old partner in Volos, central Greece, while a 41-year-old man stabbed his 23-year-old wife more than 30 times in Pella, northern Greece, leaving her hospitalized.
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USA slam dunks Greece at Beijing Olympics
The USA's LeBron James prepares to execute a reverse dunk as Greece's Costas Tsatsaris looks on... |
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EDITORIAL |
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Summer slumber must end
Summer might be on its way out, but unfortunately one cannot say the same about the major problems that are affecting the country. They seem to have been simply pushed aside during what is supposed to be a carefree holiday season.
The all too familiar structural weaknesses continue to plague the economy, the state of the environment keeps deteriorating and crime sadly continues to flourish.
Meanwhile, the government appears to have no answers to the challenges it is facing, regardless of whether these challenges are old or new ones. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Writing on the wall
Unsolicited graphic interventions on public and private property - graffiti - has a long and varied history in Greece, and it very much reflects on where society is. Visitors from more «orderly» countries, and those with a heightened need for aesthetic order, are often shocked by the barbarity of the writing and smudges on Greek walls, opening the eyes of the rest of us to a blight to which we have become desensitized.
The vandalism may be a statement of an organized kind, such as when major political parties and football teams send their foot soldiers across cities, towns and the countryside with huge stocks of paint, disfiguring bridges, embankments and even country fountains with their primal message that they are everywhere and at the same time accountable to no one (this applies even to parties when they are in power and should be upholding the rule of law, which forbids such vandalism). |
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