The
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June 13, 2005
We’ve missed a lot since going on hiatus here at TDG. The biggest news is that
the Greek National Soccer Team tied Turkey there and lost a shocker at home to
the Ukraine last week making qualifying for next year’s World Cup extremely
difficult. Back in the US, in following up on an earlier story, Paris Hilton is
now engaged to Paris Latsis and has been test driving two out of the ten
engagement rings he supposedly had picked out for her. Now here’s the rest of
the random news from the Greek world.
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If there wasn’t enough reasons for our parents to get Greek satellite TV, ERT
and Disney have closed on a deal to bring ABC shows and Disney programing to
Greek television, including ABC’s hits Desperate Housewives and Lost, new
Disney movies like Pirates of the Carribbean, and classics like Dumbo, and
Disney animation series. With regards to Lost, we’re wondering how the story of
a bunch of people stuck on a deserted island that no one can find on a map will
play with Greek audiences. (Wait, isn’t that half the islands in the Aegean?)
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A recent European Union report lists Greece as the cleanest coastal waters in
2004, with 99.9 percent of Greek beaches meeting mandatory EU cleanliness
standards, with the dirtiest of the almost 2000 Greek beaches tested being on
the island of Zakynthos. Now if someone can clean up the tap water at the
restaurants near these beaches so we don’t have to pay crazy prices for bottled
water, that would be an accomplishment.
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Three Greek aspiring collegeans were arrested by Athens police for cheating on
an university entrance exam using a wireless camera hidden in a pen. The
principal of the high school noticed an antenna cable running from the school’s
front gate to a laptop hidden in the bushes. The plan was for the student to
transmit the questions with the wireless camera and to have the answers read
back to him from the earpiece in his cellphone. Now that’s the kind of
ingenuity that we like to see out of our Greek youth.
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On her 71st birthday this past weekend, Vasiliki Hatzis, was
released on five year’s probation for cultivating about $45 million worth of
marijuana at her estate in New South Wales, Australia. A typical Greek yiayia
who wears black in memory of her late husband, claims to have continued his
marijuana production in his honor as well. She came from Cyprus to Australia in
1962 with only an elementary school education and basic farming skills, which
she used to produce the 3.2 tons of marijuana found in a shed on her property
and to maintain 200 square meters of marijuana plants found growing there as
well. It goes to show you how much a Greek immigrant with just a little bit of
education and a whole lot of hard work can accomplish in this world.
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A 30-year old Greek man who stole two trays of cookies from a bakery in Larnaca
worth about 70 Euros caused delays at the nearby Larnaca Airport. George
Metalaris, a truck driver who was with his 7-year-old nephew, was finally
nabbed by authorities after driving around the tarmac for 20 minutes and nearly
running into the path of a Cyprus Airways jet that had just landed. It seems
that people will go to great lengths for a good Greek pastry these days.
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A survey across 64 countries around the world has Greece topping the list as
the country whose citizens is the weariest of globalization. The survey shows
that 56% of the world’s citizens are opposed to globalization, believing that
it creates more problems that it solves, with 72% of Greeks agreeing with that
statement. On the whole Asia was the most negative with Africa being the only
region that positively viewed globalization. It seems Americans can feel a
little better because maybe it’s not that Greeks are anti-American, maybe they
are just anti-Everyone.
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