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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...
...heard this, we don't believe you,'" Papandreou told TIME. "Greece had lost credibility. What I was saying all along is we have to bring back our credibility." Importantly, he's also managed to keep his party largely in line. "There is this concept of politics as a dirty game," he says. "It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty." Greeks, Papandreou argues, want to deal with the rot eroding their society. "The first thing is to realize [corruption] exists as a problem, and that we've already accomplished," he says. "Already people are saying...
...Twitter, Facebook and the New York Times. "I did too," he said. "I saw my phone beep, and I said, 'I wonder what that's all about.'" When I asked him what it was about, he said he couldn't even remember. I had been outdueled in a game of phone ADD. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...
...starters, she's 38. And she had notched 10 years of experience as a fundraiser at a nonprofit in Tennessee before she was laid off last year. But now that Shands is considering moving into sports management, she's interning with the Knoxville Ice Bears hockey team, writing game summaries and handing out stats on game day. She devotes about 10 hours a week to the Bears, and she does it for free. "I'm getting to see the inner workings of a professional hockey team, learning about the business side of sports, and I get to watch hockey," Shands...
...would have thought, last Thanksgiving Eve, that the 144 most eventful days of Tiger Woods' life would not involve golf? And who could have imagined that those events would leave the golfer's game with no lasting dents...