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...Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras. I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice. One of the reasons he went to the United States was that it there was a dictatorship in Greece. He was beaten up or tortured and then...
...necessary, we'll come out of this stronger and much more viable. And that's what my hope is - and my belief is - that we can do this. Sometimes crises are catalysts for change. I do believe in a few years, we'll be proud to say that we went through this very difficult time, and we've come out a Greece that is a different type of Greece - a new model of development, a green Greece, with green energy and tourism and so on, but also with greater capacity, more competitive, more transparent...
...desk, the Prius in the driveway and the bold modern art next to the leather-bound books are small but telling signs of how he is shaking up the fusty world of Greek politics. "I do believe in a few years we'll be proud to say we went through this very difficult time, and we've come out a Greece that is a different type of Greece," he says. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...just so they can brag about them: health cleanses, bow hunting, reclaiming your virginity. So when the organizers called me the following week and asked if I would participate as the first in a series of celebrity unpluggers, I immediately thought, This is a fantastic idea. If it went well, I'd be trading 24 hours offline for hundreds of hours of new self-Google results...
...dinner, when Cassandra went to the bathroom, I had no clue what to do without a phone to pretend to be busy with. So I stared at people at nearby tables, which, while normal in 2000, is totally creepy now. But the real problem was trying to get to a party afterward. We got lost without the GPS, and by the time we got there, Cassandra's friends had already left. "Joel, this is your fault," Cassandra said many, many times. At 11:22 p.m., just four hours into our experiment, she turned on her phone and started mad texting...