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Heat and wind spark wildfires
A delivery driver on a scooter races past a forest fire on the road to Epidaurus... |
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Ultimate test for universities
The elections for the rectors' council at the University of Crete are an important litmus test for the tertiary education sector, as well as for the university itself.
The legislative reforms for the sector have been enacted by Parliament and supported by a broad consensus, because no minority, however violent it may be, can impose its own brand of lawlessness and anarchy in the country's universities. |
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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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