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EDITORIAL |
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A university for every city
Mayors and prefects often have one pet demand from the government: that their city is selected to host a university institution or, at least, a technical college.
The motives, of course, barely qualify as educational. Rather, local communities see such a hosting opportunity as a chance to make money from the students who move into the city. The profit factor naturally fuels competing demands and rivalries. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Whose strike is it anyway?
The late Xenophon Zolotas was a sweet-tempered person who always avoided confrontation, particularly with workers. His long career as Bank of Greece governor supports this claim. As prime minister, however, in the coalition government of 1989 Zolotas had to mobilize the municipal waste collectors to protect the residents of Attica against the threat of epidemics from the piling rubbish. |
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OPINION |
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The unsaid truths of the tapping case
We get used to everything in the end - on the one hand the surfeit of information we are bombarded with on some topics and, on the other, the distinct impression that we are only being shown a small chink of the truth. |
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