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OPINION: Bringing Greek tragedy up to date

Nothing much has changed in 25 centuries.

Roger Bowden
Fri, 10 Jul 2015

If you remember, the ancient Greek tragedies were always filled with foreboding, along with periodic homilies from the gloomy chorus. Twenty-five centuries later, not much seems to have changed.

The Greeks should never have told such fibs about their budget deficit to secure eurozone entry, nor

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Roger Bowden
Fri, 10 Jul 2015
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