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  • CITI Good News We No Longer Think Greece Will Exit The Eurozone

    Last summer, Citi's chief economist, Willem Buiter, introduced a bold call: he assigned a 90% probability that Greece would exit the euro on January 1, 2013. This assertion was made before European Central Bank President Mario Draghi introduced a new ECB bond-buying program, dubbed "OMT" (outright ...

  • Playoffs begin in basketball with Rethymno upsetting PAOK

    By George Georgakopoulos The league that in the last three years has produced the European basketball champion entered its playoffs on Tuesday and Wednesday with the first games of the quarterfinal round, with AGO Rethymnou producing the first upset.The side from Crete that had finished fifth in the regular season managed to defeat PAOK 75-71 at Thessaloniki on Tuesday and take a 1-0 lead in ...

  • PAOK bounces back to win at Asteras

    By George Georgakopoulos PAOK recovered some of the ground lost in the Super League playoffs by beating fellow Champions League-spot contender Asteras 2-1 at Tripoli on Wednesday, while PAS Giannina and Atromitos shared a 1-1 draw.The results have placed PAS Giannina and PAOK as joint leaders of the playoff table with seven points at the halfway point of the mini league, with Asteras on five ...

  • Greek Yogurt Creates a Crazy Amount of Waste

    you're eating — a lot of waste went into making it. Justin Elliott explains that to make the popular dairy product, yogurt makers have to create a lot of acidic whey, "a thin, runny waste product that can’t simply be dumped. Not only would that be illegal, but whey decomposition is toxic to the natural environment, robbing oxygen from streams and rivers. That could ...

  • Greece Counting On Tourism To Spur Growth

    (Photo/Andy Dabilis) STILL A WONDER - There are few jaw-dropping sites in the world and even after 2,500 years, The Acropolis one of them. Tourists stop to stare at the Parthenon even before going up. A CNN poll put the Acropolis as the second most beautiful World Heritage site, after only Angkor, Cambodia. Trust us: the Acropolis is better. As the crisis unfolds in Greece, the big question on ...


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The Ladykillers (2004)

The Ladykillers (2004)

While their most recent outing, last years Intolerable Cruelty, was the least Coen-ish movies Joel and Ethan Coen had ever made, they have returned with their unique authorial presence fully intact with The Ladykillers, which is, quite ironically, th ... ...

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  • Obama Administration On Slippery Slope

    (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President Barack Obama walks from the podium after speaking on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 15, 2013. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, the top official at the IRS. The Obama administration has recently taken two ...

  • Not Even The Greek Flag

    It might appear to be an innocent omission. It is not. Not only it is an important issue in itself, it reveals that the Church in America is on the wrong course. The National Herald revealed last week in its Greek edition that the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York no longer displays the Greek flag. The American flag and the flag of the Patriarchate fly above the main ...

  • Greek yogurts half a supertanker per year toxic waste problem

    New York's Chobani Greek Yogurt has been a boon to the state's economy, but the company has yet to find a good way to dispose of the toxic by-product of its product's production: acid whey. Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffit eating her curds and the toxic by-product of Greek yogurt.The production of the smooth, creamy and protein-packed breakfast food that has made brands like ...

  • Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad

    For the first time in the history of the Greek theater, the audience will have the opportunity to watch the theatrical adaptation of The Iliad of Homer. In the Athens Festival, the contemporary adaptation of the Iliad directed by Stathis Livathinos, will be presented by Polyplanity Productions on June 4-8. Fifteen actors and actresses appear in the play based on Dimitris Maronitis' ...

  • Greeces National Bank shares to trade ex-rights from May 24

    ATHENS | Wed May 22, 2013 2:12pm EDT ATHENS May 22 (Reuters) - Shares in Greece's largest lender National Bank (NBG) will trade without rights to buy into its 9.75 billion euro share issue from May 24, the Athens stock exchange said on Wednesday after the securities regulator cleared NBG's prospectus for the offer. Greece's top four banks, including National, need 27.5 ...

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