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Athens Uses Olympics to Fuel Civic Rebirth

By Sylvia Poggioli
Published July 28, 2004 at 9:00 PM PDT
This story was published more than 20 years ago.
The Olympic Village area in Athens is nearly completed.
The Olympic Village area in Athens is nearly completed.

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Sylvia Poggioli
Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.
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