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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
By Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Murray, London (2004) 320 pp.
Reviewed by Christopher Deliso
2008 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, considered one of the most important travelogues of the 20th century by many critics. Although the book is now often [...]
The dramatic arrest of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, hiding as a bushy-bearded spiritual guru in Novi Beograd, will no doubt inspire a Hollywood film in the not-too-distant future. And it has already inspired a lot of pathos and hyperbole, with one foot similarly in the door of fiction (Madeleine Albright accusing Karadzic of [...]
By Oxford Business Group*
With new EU member states under pressure to comply with a revised common energy policy, joint-efforts between international and local banks have been made to kick-start energy efficient practices in Romania.
Four mayor players in Romania’s banking sector have recently received a total of 45m euros from the European Bank of Reconstruction and [...]