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  • Obama Tabs Costos For U.S. Ambassador to Spain

    (Photo/Getty Images) James Costos could be moving from HBO where he is a top executive, to be the U.S. Ambassador to Spain after having been nominated by President Obama. President Barack Obama has nominated HBO executive James Costos, a Greek-American who is a prominent fundraiser for him and whose partner redecorated the White House, to be the American Ambassador to Spain. If confirmed, Costos ...

  • Greek coalition parties meet to try to settle state TV row

    ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling party leaders met on Wednesday to try to agree when and how to resume state TV broadcasts, two days after a top court ordered the immediate reopening of the state broadcaster ERT, abruptly closed by the government a week ...

  • Behold Classical Greek Statues Dressed Up Like Hipsters

    symposium on the topic averred, "All descriptions of hipsters are doomed to disappoint." Even so, everyone has the image of a hipster in their head: large sunglasses, stylized haircuts, old-timey barbs, skinny jeans, pastel shirts. Sure, that's reductive and it doesn't necessarily encompass the entire demographic, but you know you know someone (or several people) who fit the ...

  • Greek economy in dire need of reforms

    Greece is in need of radical reforms to its pension system if it is to cease being a burden on longer-term fiscal sustainability, and to prevent a rise in pension costs that would otherwise see these accounting for more than 20 per cent of GDP by 2050, warns the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In ...

  • The New Wave of Greek Yogurt

    , people, and I know I'm not the only one out there. You too are likely bordering on addiction yourself, and it's people like us who have grown the Greek yogurt industry to 2 billion dollars a ...


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Movie Review

The Conversation [DVD]

The Conversation [DVD]

As "The Conversation" slowly weaves its absorbing and intricate web, it works its way under your skin, drawing you into its sense of paranoia, until you are sharing the same feelings as the protagonist, who in this case is a man named Harry Caul (Gene Hackman). Caul's profession is surveillance -- watching and recording other people. Even one of Caul's fiercest competitors (Allen Garfield) admits ... ...

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  • Repatriated Pensioners Lose Greek Benefits

    Greece’s Ombudsman said that complaints by repatriated Greeks who receive small pensions from the countries in which they formerly live – resulting in them losing Greek pensions – are justified. The Ombudsman’s office found that many elderly repatriated uninsured or pensioners who receive small pensions from their countries or those who have not completed 20 years of ...

  • Crete Alarmed Over Earthquakes

    The intense seismic activity in the region of Crete in recent days has worried the island’s authorities, who fear a major earthquake with possible material – and other – damage. Crete continues to ';be shaken'; in the aftermath of the earthquakes as another quake struck on June 18, followed by dozens of aftershocks. Since an earthquake which hit 6 on the Richter ...

  • Taste of Paris in Athens

    The Petit Paris d'Athnes 2013 is organized in cooperation with the City of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organization (OPANDA), the Athens Traders Association, the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens and the first departmental community of Athens. It is a festival of artistic expression, focusing on the particular nuances of theater, which will take place in a historic neighborhood ...

  • Greeks Bring Prefab Houses From Bulgaria

    Trucks loaded with households and even with entire prefabricated houses pass every day from the Promachonas border post with Bulgaria heading for Greece as more Greeks prefer them to renovate or set up country houses. The selling prices, which are even 50% lower in comparison to Greece and which remain stable despite the economic crisis, are luring many Greek customers. At the same time, ...

  • Missing Norwegian Woman Shows Up

    There’s been a happy ending to the worrying case of a 26-year-old stewardess from Norway, whose parents lost contact with her while he was on holiday in Greece and after she stopped answering the persistent phone calls. The woman, Monica Barstad, apparently suffered some form of temporary amnesia but came to when she saw a picture of face on a poster stuck on a pole in Syntagma Square in ...

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