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...first time in a number of days it seemed as though the Goddess of Goals was listening to Harvard's prayers. But she was only playing more head games with the Crimson, which kept misshooting all the way through two overtimes...
...ancient Greek mythology, Diana was a patroness of virgins and goddess of the hunt, and any man who trespassed upon her privacy was likely to be punished by death. In our less supernal era, Princess Diana had been a virgin cynically used by the so-called "royal family" of Britain, of whom her husband Prince Charles was the most manipulative. And she was the one to be hunted, both symbolically and with a terrifying literalness, to her death. If Diana had possessed any flickering consciousness in these last minutes of her life, it would have been of those human jackals...
Souls in search of final blessing often came to the temple of a powerful Hindu goddess in Calcutta. But nearby, many discovered another source of solace: a small woman, wrinkled and bent, a willing companion to the dying. She tenderly cared for the abandoned and the sick, washing their wounds, soothing their sores, preparing them for death. "They must feel wanted, loved," Mother Teresa said. "They are Jesus...
...superhuman feats as a way of atonement. There's a lesson here, maybe, about the disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...
Lawrence, who seemed sedate if not sedated in a conversation last week with TIME, agrees that success is a bitch goddess: "I tried to prepare for it. But you can't really prepare for it." He says of the Sherman Oaks incident, "It was a time when I was working very hard, and I should have been home resting. My marriage wasn't going very well, and it was a difficult time in my life." He says that any medication "was doctor-prescribed. It was no more than taking an aspirin." He insists that his temper flare-ups are over...