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Athletes’ performances fail to lift doping cloud
Weightlifter Nikos Kourtidis prepares to lift in the 105 kg category at the Beijing Olympics, where he came in 10th yesterday. |
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A process nobody profits from
Irrespective of the legalities regarding ministers' responsibilities and other ways of investigating any scandals involving government officials, people expect the government to deal with the substance of the allegations that have been made regarding unprofitable ferry routes - even it means just taking a stand publicly.
These charges have been making the rounds of the judicial and executive authorities since 2005 without anything having been clarified, perhaps even in violation of the Constitution. |
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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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