German Finance Minister Schäuble chats with unidentified officials during a euro zone finance ministers meeting on the situation in Greece, in Brussels / Reuters The German news magazine Der Spiegel summarizes the absolute farce currently unfolding in Brussels rather succinctly: it describes the list of demands put towards Greece as a “catalogue of cruelties”. The…
Giorgos Chatzifotiadis weeps outside a national bank branch in Thessaloniki on 3 July. Photograph: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images The above photograph starkly signifies the despair and indignation experienced by the Greek people. It depicts a pensioner, who after his fourth failed attempt to withdraw 120 Euros on behalf of his wife, breaks down in tears. In…
British bacteriologist Walter played by Edward Norton The Painted Veil, a 1925 novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham, has been adapted into three movies: in 1934 featuring Greta Garbo, in 1957 under the title The Seventh Sin, and most recently in 2006 directed by John Curran. Although the book and previous adaptations are…