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March 17, 2013

Can the Greek Center Hold?

Raymond Zhong, Wall Street Journal

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Ask most Greeks about Golden Dawn, the extreme-nationalist party that is now the country's third-most popular, and they recite from the catalog of horrors that has accompanied the party's rise: Foreigners and immigrants run through with swords on the street and stabbed at subway stations. Openly bigoted provocations in Parliament, in the courts, and on radio and television. A whole sector of central Athens turned into a hothouse of fear.

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