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  • Euro zone wrangling may cost Greece 2 billion euros in 2013 - sources

    Reuters © A protester wearing a Greek flag stands outside Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens June 13, 2013. REUTERS/John ...

  • 17 Million Tourists To Visit Greece This Summer

    According to data published by the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises, from January to May, Greek tourism has been running with a 6.05% increase in air arrivals compared to last year. In absolute numbers, in the first five months this year 2,441,276 tourists arrived, while in 2012 there were 2,302,107 tourist arrivals. There has been a significant increase to all Greek destinations. There ...

  • Meet John Negroponte Old School Diplomat

    John Negroponte (3d from left) drew a crowd of distinguished guests to hear about his lengthy diplomatic career, including (from left) Archbishop Demetrios of America and John Stratakis, and Nicholas Kourides on his left. He had a captive audience. NEW YORK - Ambassador John Negroponte spoke about his remarkable career in a lecture titled Life in Public Service at the second presentation of the ...

  • Menounos Shines In Big Slim Greek Christening

    Beautiful in Greece: Maria Menounos (far right) cut a striking figure in her purple floral frock to attend the christening of her friend's baby girl in Athens, where the American TV host showed her style and said she was happy to be in Greece. It looks as though Maria Menounos has got it right once again. The television personality lent a festive air as she attended the June 15 christening ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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