March 2005
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Greece's Olympic-Sized Misery
Athens
Amid the shantytown shacks built of scrap lumber and plastic bags, the giant, slowly rusting metal structure looks like an intergalactic visitor from the distant future.
Actually, as the residents of the Athens slum of Liosia are well aware, the wrestling stadium landed here exactly seven months ago. It was one of the dozen major buildings constructed at considerable expense for last...
