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...Monash University media specialist Nick Economou says Murdoch and Packer appear to be members of a new breed of non-interventionist proprietors. "Both of them have struck me by their total lack of interest in wielding influence," he says. "They're not motivated by that stuff. They want money." Foxtel is the jewel in the CMH satchel. After losing $104 million in 2005, it turned a $62 million profit last year - and analysts forecast rapid growth as it increases its 29% penetration of Australian homes...
...Howard has perhaps more room to move, says Monash University political commentator Nick Economou, with the Coalition holding none of the five House of Representatives seats in Tasmania. If he offers a package to save the forests, Economou believes, "he'll write Tasmania off." Labor, meanwhile, has the trickier task of satisfying traditional voter bases in seats like Braddon and also wooing mainlanders like MacLulich. But the momentum is there: some of the strongest applause from the party faithful at the Sept. 29 Labor campaign launch came for Latham's promise to detail a policy before the election. Party strategists...
...Perejil comes from its position near Spain's North African enclave Ceuta. GREECE 17 November Cracked Greek authorities detained a 58-year-old math professor suspected of being the leader, and a founder member, of the terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November. The group's alleged mastermind, Michalis Economou, was captured by police who stormed his home island of Lipsi, 250 km east of Athens. The professor's real name is believed to be Alexandros Giotopolous. The authorities were led to him by 17 November terrorists who confessed in return for lighter sentences. Police also confirmed that a gun confiscated...
Then, a hero rose from amongst the tortured masses. George Economou 100, an always enterprising young lad, ventured from the attic of Thayer's 5th floor to investigate the conspicuous absence of his housing verdict. Arriving on the 1st floor, he noticed the pile of mysterious envelopes and watched as an innocent custodian moved to dispose of them. Boldly intervening, George snatched the envelopes back from the brink of oblivion and confirmed that they were, in fact, the much awaited housing results. A lesser man would have simply removed his own envelope. George is not a lesser man. He removed...
...dorm was filled with smoke," Economou said...