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Rock crisis, “Once a bank run has started, it is rational to join in.” And if you were a depositor with a Greek bank, or, for that matter, given current headlines, a Spanish bank, what would you do? Retired Athens hospital worker Giorgos Vassilakis will... Full Article at The Corner
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Greece is a country where everyone will talk to you ... You'll always find someone to share your suffering with and someone's always there to help. It's not only the good weather. It's the powerful network of support that has made the suicide rate in Greece so low. It's still there but this crisis is st...
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The [Chicago] NATO summit should issue an invitation for membership to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, or to Macedonia by whatever name Skopje and Athens may agree on. The US should make it clear to Greece that repeating the mistake of Bucharest is not acceptable, as the ICJ has already said.
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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 At Wikipedia.org
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