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...change. As a matter of fact, one of our slogans is "We're changing ourselves to change Greece." I think this is what we've been able to do. It's not an easy process, but that's the only way we can do this. (Read: "Greek Austerity Measures Spark Rising Protests...
...seems to hang uneasily on the down-to-earth, softly spoken premier. The Apple laptop on his 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...
...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...
...returning from Brussels with a deal that will see the European Union bail Greece out if everything else fails, he relaxed with a long bike ride. "He doesn't have the ability to inspire the public like his father, but that may be a sign of maturity in the Greek public," says Stan Draenos, a Greek-American academic who has written an upcoming biography of Andreas Papandreou. "The age of heroes is over...
...Greeks describe their new Prime Minister with words like decent or humane. In the brutal world of Greek politics, though, those aren't always compliments. Despite PASOK's overwhelming victory last year, Papandreou's elevation owed much to the self-destruction of the governing center-right New Democracy Party. Opponents dismissed him as Yiorgaki, or "little George." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...