Word: greeks
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...infotainment. And the array of program choices, already so bewildering, will multiply almost to infinity. But that is the predictable part. The most tantalizing and scary prospect is what this electronic deluge will do to us. Will we become zombie consumers of Lethal Weapon 17, or connoisseurs of Greek drama on channel 894? Will our voracious image consumption erode our ability to read and speak, or will TV teach us new languages? Will we be happy in our comfy video cocoons, or yearn to escape from that cell and get our shoes muddy at an outdoor concert...
...member of NATO, which is undergoing a post-cold war identity crisis, and the E.C., which is trying to keep the Maastricht treaty from unraveling, Greece has extra leverage these days on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S. it has the additional help of the powerful Greek-American lobby...
...credit, Mitsotakis is working to resolve the long-simmering dispute over Cyprus and reach a rapprochement with Turkey. He keeps hinting that if he budges on the Macedonian question, extreme nationalists in the Greek Parliament -- where he has only a two-vote majority -- will bring down his government and replace it with one that will undo his welcome diplomatic initiatives...
Having heard out the Greek Foreign Minister, I'm prepared to give him and Mitsotakis the benefit of the doubt on their motivation: they're not guilty of irredentism -- a desire to recover lands lost long ago -- but merely of paranoia and myopia. The situation has all the makings of tragedy, which Aristotle, another great Macedonian who was Alexander's teacher, defined as the result not of wickedness but of foolish pride...
AMERICA ABROAD: A Greek Tragedy in the Making...