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Argentina ends Greece’s dreams of a medal
Basketball player Panayiotis Vassilopoulos holds his head after Greece lost 80-78 to Argentina in the men's quarterfinals of the Beijing Olympics. |
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Gas vendors are above the law
When Development Minister Christos Folias says that gas station owners are not «above the law,» he should make clear what law he is specifically referring to.
It is a well known fact that the entire fuel trade is steeped in illegality. For the past five years, gasoline vendors have not being obeying the law requiring the use of cash registers, while the Development Ministry has turned a blind eye.
When a particular commercial sector is allowed to disobey a law with impunity, we can be sure that they will refuse to obey any law they don't approve of. |
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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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