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...I look at it and marvel how the lapidary peered into this stone and saw the elements that would form a picture of Socrates, albeit a Socrates who looks like a distant cousin of Lenin....
...Both Salgado, accused of 65 crimes in a separate case that has not come to trial, and Sócrates deny any wrongdoing....
...But the debate on how and why we should act, a topic that stretches back to Socrates, is far from over....
...Is Washington ready for Peter Thiel’s radical brand of anti-establishment thinking?...
...The PS’s only absolute majority was won in 2005 by José Sócrates, the former prime minister at the centre of Portugal’s largest-ever political corruption scandal, making it an unattractive option to many...
...Here’s our Lisbon correspondent Peter Wise....
...These include a wide-ranging probe into suspected bribery and other crimes involving José Sócrates, the former prime minister, and alleged corruption at Energias de Portugal, the power utility....
...(Sankara and Peter III were both killed into the bargain.) As the mood turns, everyone is close to giving up....
...Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher, by Armand D’Angour, Bloomsbury, RRP£20, 272 pages Tragedy, the Greeks and Us , by Simon Critchley, Profile Books, RRP£16.99, 336 pages Peter Stothard is author...
...A generation after that, Socrates, the “ ‘wisest man’ to have ever lived”, was put to death. Ancient Greek democracy never recovered. Cleon’s demagogic seed had come to fruition....
...That’s why he leaves [midfielder] Peter Reid like a statue in the England game.”...
...Lawyers acting for Mr Sócrates described the charges against him as “unfounded, foolish and unsubstantiated”....
...Under Portuguese law, prosecutors have up to a year from Mr Sócrates detention in November to bring formal charges....
...Costa, who served as a minister under Mr Sócrates and was once a close ally....
...Mr Sócrates, who has not been charged but is under house arrest, protests his innocence....
...Mr Sócrates, whose name the prime minister mentioned a dozen times, was detained in December on suspicion of corruption and is currently under house arrest....
...The PS, which governed from 2005-2011 under José Sócrates, who is now under house arrest in a corruption investigation, gained 74 seats with 28 per cent of the vote....
...Police detained Mr Sócrates, 57, at Lisbon airport on Friday night as he arrived from Paris....
..., including the sexy Alcibiades who recounts how he tried but failed to seduce Socrates....
...It reads: “Inaugurated by His Excellency Prime Minister José Sócrates, July 2009.”...
...Portuguese media reported that Mr Sócrates had been made an arguido, or official suspect, in the case....
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