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Early morning bomb...
Workers helped clear up the debris left behind by an early morning bomb blast at a bar-restaurant in Marina Zea, Piraeus, yesterday. |
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Gold medal for sheer indifference
Only one week has passed since the Olympics closing ceremony in Beijing, so any attempt to evaluate the long-term impact of Greece's performance at the summer Games would be somewhat premature.
Nevertheless, few would disagree that there is good reason to be concerned about the future of Greek sports. The grim conclusion derives not only from Greece's poor medal haul, the sad doping scandals involving Greek athletes or the fear that young kids will be left without worthy role models.
The concern, rather, centers on the behavior of a number of Greece's senior sports officials, since they are the ones who shape developments in the field on multiple levels. |
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A modern death cult
For a people so much in love with life, it is astonishing to see how keenly the Greeks court death - and nowhere is this more evident than in the way they drive. Even though billions have been spent on road and other infrastructure projects since Greece joined the European Union in 1981, such is the quality of our roads and so great our recklessness that our country is still the EU's leader in road deaths. Our roads are the stage on which we strut and display every personal and collective weakness to the deadliest effect. |
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