For Tsipras, the youngest leader to hold high office in modern times, what lies ahead is a litany of choices with potentially explosive effect.
Cannes didn't make sex, lies and videotape (the film had already won the audience award at Sundance), but in giving the Palme d'Or to Soderbergh, Wim Wenders' jury gave the new indie cinema the old school's blessing.
Sex, lies had great company in the competition line-up of 1989.
It made an arthouse star of Soderbergh and a heavyweight of his backer, Harvey Weinstein, whose studio, Miramax, would come to define quality American cinema over much of the next decade and, perhaps, help to destroy it too (read Indiewire's excellent piece on sex, lies for more on its legacy).
An apocryphal story says that a few days earlier, the then 22-year-old was at the Cannes film festival, leaving a screening of Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape.
This has sometimes meant taking on the vested interests of the medical profession, and Seddon's description of SalaUna suggests that power lies with the managers of the business, who use contracts, incentives, data and dismissal as tools to shape the behaviour of clinicians.
But, of course, ultimately the solution lies in a political settlement.
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It won't be defeated until we unite not just in condemning the acts of terrorism, which we all do, but in fighting the poisonous propaganda that the root cause of this terrorism somehow lies with us around this table, and not with them.
Speaking on a visit to Govan shipyard in Glasgow on Friday, the prime minister said the responsibility for what had happened in Ukraine "lies absolutely squarely with Vladimir Putin and Russia", and a strong response was needed.
Now, like so many ideas that were at first highly controversial, people say 'Well that's obvious!'" "May-Britt and Edvard's research lies at the very heart of the cognitive-neuroscience enterprise," Stanislas Dehaene, who studies consciousness at the Collège de France in Paris told Nature.
