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...heard this, we don't believe you. Greece has lost its credibility. What I was saying all along is we have to bring back our credibility. That did in fact work. Credibility for Greece has come back. Of course, those are short-term changes. We have to get down to the deeper changes, which we're already doing. So that's this phase. Now getting beyond this immediate crisis - getting a breathing space to actually get down to the deeper - and I would say even more creative changes, in our society. (See TIME's Greece covers...
...deal with this? In fact, I think you'll see in these crises two different types of political responses. One, which I would say is a more polarizing and more populist and even scapegoating kind of leadership role. And one which says, no, lets get down to the real issues, lets work together, lets be more collective in our response. Let's be more democratic in our response...
Talking to people on the streets, one thing I heard again and again is that people want to see somebody punished for corruption and tax evasion. What is your response to that? Will people see punishment? I get that all the time. This is the sense that I was telling you, that people feel that you do not have the rule of law, but the law of the powerful. So that's what we have to change around, so it's not as if simply because you've got money or simply because you have some high position somewhere...
...Graf's behavior raises a question. Her bizarre actions were well known by everyone in several commands. Since all officers must undergo a periodic evaluation of their performance by superiors, how did Graf continue to get top ratings? That question, it seems, must be asked of Graf's superiors. William Aylward Reston...
...get there, Papandreou knows he will have to take on the culture of entitlement and graft that has festered on the left - and his own party. "The first thing we have to do is change ourselves," he says he told his socialist PASOK party after he took over its leadership...