Greek long jumper to auction shoes for child quake victims

ATHENS: A famous Greek long jumper will auction his shoes, with the proceeds to be donated for the child victims of the twin earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye last week, local media reported Thursday. The sports shoes, which were worn by Olympic gold medalist Miltiadis Tentoglou in his latest performance Wednesday at the World Athletics […]

Contractarians and contrarians

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but how it thinks. —  Christopher Hitchens, American critic The Big Uneasy in Malaysia today is the lack of telos (Greek) — ultimate aim or goal — which evidences cognitive distortions in leadership actively engaged in rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic. […]