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From 1984, Eugene Kinkead on the first Olympic Games
Short reviews of Olympic-themed books
Omonia, in the heart of Athens, is a working-class district of six- and eight-story concrete high-rises built in the nineteen-sixties on the bones of old garden houses, in an enormous development scheme that Athenians now regret. Even with its streets festooned with colorful Olympic flags and its traffic thinned by newly constructed sections of the Athens metro, Omonia is dense and oppressive. This is where a good many of Greece's new immigrants live or hang out--Albanians, South Asians, and, in the back streets and cafes around the Hotel Joker, off St. Konstantin ...