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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...
...Papandreou the man to haul Greece - and PASOK - into the 21st century? He may carry a famous political name, but Papandreou is not cut from the same cloth as most Greek politicians. Trim and fit, the U.S.-born Prime Minister (his mother, Margaret, is from Illinois) lived much of his youth in exile with his father in the U.S., Canada and Sweden. He speaks English with a quiet, Midwestern cadence and perfect American idioms. In Greek he's cerebral rather than fervent, eschewing the widespread idea that a Greek politician needs to dominate a room with oversize rhetoric. The Greek...
...government can help gin up jobs by reducing the 40-hour workweek, which was established in 1940. Since then, technology has increased worker productivity dramatically, resulting in fewer workers producing more. A 36-hour week would require the workforce to be increased to maintain today's total weekly man-hours...
...picture was different in the 70s, when every young man's dream was to fly across the roads with his sweetheart on a Bajaj scooter. In north India, marriages meant a Bajaj scooter as dowry, Bajaj has said. Tejinder Singh, a retired brigadier in the Indian army, remembers his first Bajaj scooter that he bought with a loan of $70 in 1973. In those days of bicycles, a scooter felt like a royal luxury. "Riding in the night, with my wife at the back, her hands gently holding me was the most romantic feeling," he says...
...records Imelda might have danced to at New York discothques a few decades earlier. "Ladies in Blue," a tribute to the pill-popping entourage that surrounded the "Iron Butterfly," as she was known, recalls the cooing stomp of ABBA; Kate Pierson of the B-52s belts "The Whole Man" as if it's one of her own hits. "The text on that one is almost one hundred percent taken from one of Imelda's wackier speeches," Byrne says. "She got into her own kind of cosmology where binary code, zeroes and ones, would turn into flowers and trees and heart...