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  • Foreigner Families Charmed by Sikinos

    It seems that Sikinos, a small Greek island in the southern Cyclades, has charmed many Germans, Norwegians and Swedish, who have bought abandoned houses and renovated them to enjoy the island's serenity in spring and autumn. About 15 foreigner families who own property on the island feel at home there, while its beauties and calmness have played a key role in choosing this specific ...

  • Crews Dig Through Rubble Of Oklahoma Tornado

    (AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Chris Landsberger) Gene Tripp sits in his rocking chair where his home once stood after being destroyed by a tornado hit the area near 149th and Drexel on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Okla. The death toll has mounted with discoveries of more bodies. MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as ...

  • Suicides up 26 in crisis-hit Greece

    SUICIDES have jumped by 26 per cent in Greece over the past year, with the country's economic crisis blamed for the trend, officials say. Greek statistics agency Elstat said 477 people committed suicide in the country in 2011, an increase of 26 per cent over the previous year. Although 82 per cent of those who committed suicide were men, the rate of women taking their own lives doubled to 84 ...

  • Mavraganis 218 offshore firms being probed

    A total of 218 offshore companies are currently being inspected by tax authorities in Athens, according to a document submitted to Parliament on Tuesday by Deputy Finance Minister Giorgos Mavraganis in response to a question submitted by four deputies of the main leftist opposition party SYRIZA.Of the 218 firms beings inspected, 161 are linked to the tax office of Kranidi in the Peloponnese and ...

  • Engine problem forces aircraft back to Iraklio

    An aircraft that had been en route to Kiev from Iraklio was forced to return to the Cretan port's Nikos Kazantzakis airport on Tuesday morning due to a malfunction in the craft's engine.All 162 passengers aboard the Aviatrans Airbus 320 were safe and well, according to local reports, and were expected to board another aircraft to their ...


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Rushmore [DVD]

Rushmore [DVD]

There is a moment near the middle of Wes Anderson's "Rushmore" when a character makes a statement that essentially sums up the appeal of the film itself. Speaking to the film's protagonist, 15-year-old extracurricular prodigy Max Fischer, a young schoolteacher with whom he has fallen in love says, "I've never met anyone like you." ...

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  • More Greeks taking their own lives

    (17 mins ago) Suicides have jumped by 26 percent in Greece over the past year, as a result of the economic crisis, officials said. Four hundred and seventy seven people committed suicide in Greece in 2011, an increase of 26 percent over the previous year, the national statistics agency Elstat said today. Although 82 percent of those who committed suicide were men, the rate of women taking ...

  • Athens Police Patrols on Bikes

    Starting from the morning of May 21, the Athens Municipal Police will use fifteen bicycles for patrols in areas of major historical and environmental interest. The entrance to the Acropolis was the starting line for the fifteen policemen on bikes. "We are very happy today. The bicycles and their specially trained riders will patrol the pedestrian walkway. This initiative is the precursor ...

  • WWII War Claims Divide Greece And Germany Again

    The Nazis execute a Greek man in the village of Kalavrya, one of nearly 1,200 massacred on Dec. 13, 1943 in one of the many atrocities committed during the war, along with other damages, for which Greece still wants Germany to pay. High up in the Peloponnese, above the town of Kalavryta, Giorgos Dimopoulos reads through the names chiselled into a stone monument. At one, he stops. "Dimitrios ...

  • U.S. Blames Golden Dawn For Anti-Semitism

    The election last year of 18 members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party to the Greek Parliament has caused an increase in anti-Semitism in the country, the U.S. State Department said in a report on international religious freedom. The party's popularity is continuing the soar the more it is criticized for its stance, which is also anti-immigrant, anti-Gay, nationalist and ultra-religious, ...

  • Large rescue effort contains Patra hotel fire

    A large fire that broke out in the hotel Astir in the western port of Patra on Tuesday was brought under control by a unit of 30 firefighters manning 10 fire engines.The fire broke out on a room on the fifth floor though the cause remained unclear.Firefighters contained the blaze before it could spread to other rooms and there were no reports of ...

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