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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...
Clash dropped 56% from its opening weekend - not a disastrous plummet, considering that the movie got mixed-to-hostile reviews and a lowish B-minus CinemaScore rating, and that the geekosphere was vexed that Clash was converted at the last minute from 2-D to fake 3-D. (Call it faux-D.) Costing $125 million to make (compared with Date Night's $55 million), the movie has already earned $110 million in North America and another $45 million abroad. Action movies almost always do better in foreign markets than comedies. Baby Mama, for example, took in $60.5 million at home...
...government news agency reported the protester died after being clubbed in the head. Another protest leader, Arisman Pongruangrong, who had threatened to burn down Bangkok at the beginning the protest, declared "war has come." But Nattawut sounded more conciliatory, asking on stage for a senior military officer to call him and urging protesters not to seek revenge at the moment. By 9 p.m., a military spokesman said troops had been ordered to pull back and not attempt to seize Phan Fa. Nattawut responded by telling protesters to also fall back to Phan Fa, but it was not clear how much...
...protesters are demanding that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva step down and call a new election. They are mainly supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006 and now lives abroad rather than serve a prison term for a corruption conviction. After protesters invaded the parliament building on Wednesday, Abhsiit declared a state of emergency and issued arrest warrants for 27 protest leaders. The order bans public gatherings and under its provisions the government shut down a television station run by protest leaders which the government claimed was broadcasting distortions. (See pictures...
...Poles died of hunger and disease. "It is my personal opinion that Stalin felt personally responsible for this tragedy, and carried out the executions [of Poles in 1940] out of a sense of revenge," Putin said at a press conference. He also disappointed many in Poland by failing to call the massacres a war crime or to pledge that the perpetrators' names, which are now sealed in Russia's secret archives, would finally be opened to the Poles...