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...metallic twang of the bouzouki, a kind of Greek lute - became the sound of the urban underclass, with sharp, poignant lyrics about prison life, drugs and, during the military dictatorship of the 1960s and '70s, politics. Fans show their appreciation by throwing flowers, usually gardenias. Bring a bunch to Taximi, on 29 Isavron Street, Exarchia, tel: (30-210) 363 9919, where black-and-white photos of rembetika's finest performers invoke the spirit of the genre's origins. Patrons take their music seriously, with old-timers in pinstripes dancing until dawn...
...sudden he's diagnosed with very bad cancer and so neither of them could be there. And so she spoke over the phone. Then I thought of her not being there and why, and I started to speak and I burst out crying in front of a whole bunch of people I didn't know. I don't do that very often, hardly ever...
...missed opportunities are identified--four during the Clinton era, six in Bush's first eight months--and each leaves the reader wondering, What if? Late in his presidency, Clinton mused out loud in a meeting that "it would scare the s___ out of al-Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp." But Clinton's enthusiasm rarely translated into action. In early August 2001, Bush received his now famous CIA briefing that bin Laden wanted to attack inside the U.S., but didn't appear alarmed...
More and more news websites these days require registration, forcing you to give them your name, age, occupation, income level and other personal information before they will let you read their content. For users wary of letting anyone--never mind a bunch of journalists--invade their privacy to that extent, Bug Me Not provides a solution. Just go to bugmenot.com and enter the address of the site you want to visit. Bug Me Not will offer one or more previously registered names that you can use. If there isn't one available, the site invites you to submit your user...
Brought together when their parents married in 1995, the kids have by now grown tired of references to the Brady Bunch. "It doesn't get at the fact that we're a very real family," says Vanessa Kerry, 27, a medical student at Harvard. While she concedes that initially they had to work to find common ground, today they "fight to find time to spend together." A key factor in such harmony, she says, is that each family respects the other's "legacy." For the Heinz men, that means their deceased father John; for Vanessa and sister Alexandra...