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Antonis Samaras

prime minister of Greece
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Antonis Samaras (born May 23, 1951, Athens, Greece) is a Greek politician who served as prime minister of Greece (2012–15). Samaras was born into an upper-class family. In his youth he played tennis, winning the Greek teen tennis championship at age 17. He pursued higher education in the United States, earning a B.A. in economics from Amherst (Massachusetts) College in 1974 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1976. From 1977 to 1993 Samaras...

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