Word: kallithea
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Greece shrugged, but the rest of the world shuddered. The three bombs that went off just before dawn in the Athens district of Kallithea last Wednesday gutted one side of a police station, shattered windows up and down a leafy suburban street and jarred residents from their predawn slumber - but they did not faze Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert...
...incomplete and behind schedule. Failure to finish the work in time for the opening ceremonies would be a great embarrassment for the Greeks, and it's too soon to say whether they will make the deadline. No wonder the authorities were so determined not to be distracted by the Kallithea blasts. Security guarantees? Such things, said a Greek police commander, paraphrasing his Stoic ancestors, "must be left to fate...
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