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Transmissions from a Lone Star: Notes on the Landscapes Spotted in the Backgrounds of News Reports
RIA Novosti
It feels like it’s been going on for forever. Since it’s essentially the same set of ritual gestures repeated ad nauseam, I recently stopped listening to the dialogue and started studying the scenery in the backgrounds. Now that was interesting. I...
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Greece off your bucket list -- at the best price around. Go-today has packed the most sought-after destinations in one low-priced Greece package tour. Get a flight from NYC (other cities available at an additional rate), 8 nights' accommodations (2...
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Greece's Prime Minister Lucas Papademos (C) arrives to chair a cabinet meeting in Athens February 21, 2012. Euro zone finance ministers agreed a 130-billion-euro (108.7-billion-pound) rescue for Greece on Tuesday to avert an imminent chaotic default... View Photo »
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‘We are just wasting taxpayers’ money and piling austerity on the Greek people who will revolt. Anger: Blind protesters march during an anti-austerity protest today in Athens Call for justice: A blind protester (left) shouts against cuts in Athens...
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European and IMF monitors will establish a permanent presence in Athens to oversee the implementation of the reforms – a move that is likely to fuel further resentment in Greece. Private sector bondholders have agreed to take a so-called ‘haircut’...
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The unvarnished view of EU insiders is laid bare by a document marked "strictly confidential" that confirms what critics have been saying for months: that Troika policies are self-defeating. "Even under the most optimistic scenario, the austerity...
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A woman beggar walks by the Bank of Greece in central Athens February 21, 2012. Greeks resigned themselves on Tuesday to a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout that won their country a last-minute reprieve from bankruptcy at the price of a decade of... View Photo »
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The bill will be presented to MPs on Thursday and ratified “under urgent procedures”. 4. ENHANCED AND PERMANENT PRESENCE Yet another catchphrase from Tuesday’s Eurogroup meeting is "enhanced and permanent presence", a demand that will see EU inspectors...
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"It's not an easy (program), it's an ambitious one," said Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF. For the private debtholders who Greece owes money to, the bond swap will lop €107 billion off Greece's €352 billion load. On top of that, investors will...
About Athens
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Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: /a'θina/) is the capital and largest city of Greece and the birthplace of democracy. Named after goddess Athena, Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world with a recorded history of at least 3,000 years. Today, the Greek capital is a bustling and cosmopolitan metropolis with an urban population of 3.1... Full Article
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French Green Party 'Europe Ecologie Les Verts' (EELV) candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, Eva Joly arrives for a press conference in EELV headquarters in Paris on February 20, 2012, as she returned from a two-day visit in Greece, where she joined a solidarity event in Athens,...
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ATHENS, GREECE - FEBRUARY 17: Jorge Christou, a 41-year-old musician who is homeless and suffers from HIV, counts the money his was given whilst begging on a train on February 17, 2012 in Athens, Greece. It is estimated that over 20,000 Greeks are homeless with 10,000 sleeping on the...
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ATHENS, GREECE - FEBRUARY 18: A general view of the Acropolis Museum, which was co-financed by the Greek government and the European Union's Regional Development Fund, on February 18, 2012 in Athens, Greece. In 2004 the Olympics returned to Greece, the birthplace of the ancient and...
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