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People call you a decent man. But politics is not always a decent game. In the right and tumble world of Greek politics, is decency an effective political strategy? I've been in politics for quite a few years, it's getting close to 28 to 29 years. So the fact that they call me decent after 29 years shows you can be decent in politics. There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with George Papandreou | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Greeks describe their new Prime Minister with words like decent or humane. In the brutal world of Greek politics, though, those aren't always compliments. Despite PASOK's overwhelming victory last year, Papandreou's elevation owed much to the self-destruction of the governing center-right New Democracy Party. Opponents dismissed him as Yiorgaki, or "little George." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Papandreou: The Greek Thinker | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...graduated from college last year, reached the point where she felt that working 40-hour weeks for no pay was "degrading." But Schembari, who is now freelancing, still thinks she got something valuable out of the internship. "I was able to write for a website with a decent readership, and I built up my clips," she says. "My bosses were nice. They just couldn't afford to pay. But in hindsight, that really shouldn't be my problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working for Free: The Boom in Adult Interns | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...have some good runners, but right now, we’re still trying to get in sync with each other,” he said. “It was a decent race...We’re trying to get into the low-41 [second range] instead of mid-42?...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Strong Again in Outdoor Meet | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

Miley Cyrus, another moneymaker whose films are pretty much off the blockbuster radar, enjoyed a decent opening of $16.2 million, and $25.6 million for its first five days, for The Last Song. With the same learn-to-love-your-daddy plot as her Hannah Montana: The Movie hit from last spring, the new picture is based on a screenplay and novel by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, Dear John), the go-to guy for young-adult weepies. Once a princess of the Disney Channel, Cyrus has generated more than a quarter-billion dollars with her first three movies (the Hannah Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Cash of the Titans | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

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