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Reflections
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George Papandreou's honorable legacy.
There is the often told story about Winston Churchill learning the devastating news of his party's electoral defeat, in July 1945, at the hands of a seemingly ungrateful British public, only to have his wife tell him that, given how exhausting the previous five years had been for him, this was perhaps "a blessing in disguise." Without missing a beat, Churchill famously shot back, "If so, the disguise was perfect."
On March 7, Greece went to the polls, and in giving the conservative New Democracy Party and its leader, Costas Karamanlis, a fairly healthy parliamentary majority--165 seats in the 300-seat parliament--the electorate not only threw out of power the Socialist (PASOK) Party, which had ruled Greece during 20 of the preceding 23 years, but also effectively put on hold the meteoric career of George Papandreou, who had been Greece's foreign minister since early 1999 (as well as the recently elected chairman of PASOK), and who, in the eyes of most knowledgeable international observers, was seen as being one of the few trul...See the full content of this document
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