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No More Greedy Moguls!

Written by Taki on June 18, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

In the close to four years that I’ve been writing this column, I’ve never mentioned business and the stock market, subjects I know little about and am interested in even less. But now, I fear, the time has come. Although the economy has recovered and the market should be booming, the small investors who make
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European Bureaucrooks

Written by Taki on June 11, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

A few observations before I leave the Big Bagel for the elected dictatorship of Tony Blair’s Britain, and the unelected tyranny of the European Union farther south. Americans are basically spoiled. William Bennett says, "The nation we live in today is more violent and vulgar, coarse and cynical, rude and remorseless, deviant and depressed, than
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Rest Easy, Bagelites

Written by Taki on June 4, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Okay, New Yorkers are feeling anxious, depressed and helpless after the "toxic way" the FBI presented the risks involving terrorist acts. But not to worry. I am here to offer you some relief. As Onassis once said to Arnaud de Borchgrave, when the latter hinted that the interview he wanted from the Greek tycoon and
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My Best Summer Love Unlike so many of you youngsters …

Written by Taki on May 28, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

In the first instance, my former wife decided enough was enough and stayed away, having flown to Brazil for the marriage of the recently departed Heini Thyssen. This was in May. As some of you may remember, some spoiled French students also decided enough was enough about that time, and Paris became a battleground. My
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All Rightists Are Not Fascists

Written by Taki on May 21, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

To Ground Zero, or next to it, to meet Jorg Haider, the governor of Carinthia and head of the Freedom Party of Austria. There are not many politicians quite like Haider around, certainly not in Europe, where they tend to run to fat, bald, ugly and definitely hypocritical. Haider is trim, athletic, with a full
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My Horrible Secret

Written by Taki on May 14, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

I have a terrible confession to make, in this my "first" column for New York Press. Neither my father nor my mother, no aunt or uncle, no nanny, no family priest, no servant, no friend of the family, no scoutmaster, not even the German officers who occupied our house, ever sexually abused me. I know,
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Vive Le Pen!

Written by Taki on May 7, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

In the autumn of 1987, Jean-Marie Le Pen came to Athens as my father’s guest. The old man gave a glittering party for Le Pen, one that was, obviously, boycotted by the great and the good, by which I mean the hypocrites, phonies and parasites that make up the political world in the birthplace of
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All Balled Up

Written by Taki on April 30, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The first law passed once the Greek colonels had overthrown the government on April 21, 1967, was the one prohibiting Greek cabbies from driving in their underwear. Athens gets rather hot in the summer, and the Greeks, a practical people, have learned how to stay cool by never overdressing. Taxi drivers, needless to say, are
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McConkey for Governor

Written by Taki on April 23, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The first and only time I met Gov. George Pataki was at Elaine’s, and I was under the influence. He could not have been nicer. My friend John Mosely introduced us, and Pataki graciously complimented me on my writing. Needless to say, I was very flattered the Governor knew who the poor little Greek boy
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The Israel Lobby

Written by Taki on April 16, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

On Easter Sunday, during lunch, the richest woman in Israel, Irithe Landeau, suddenly burst into my house and began to harangue my friends and family about Adam Shapiro. Despite the fact she’s one of my wife’s oldest friends and was invited to drop in after lunch, I was extremely annoyed. I reminded Irithe that my
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