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From the time he was a child growing up in Ankershagen, Germany, in the early part of the 19th century, Heinrich Schliemann knew his destiny. He vowed that when he was a man, he'd prove that the people, places and events that had entranced him in Homer's Iliad--Helen and Agamemnon, the siege of Troy and the magnificent city itself--were more than just legends. Or so he later wrote. Like many of Schliemann's tales, this one may have been a trifle exaggerated. "In general, scholars accept the fact that Schliemann told a great many lies," says...
...Elis toppled the Big Red behind the performance of outfielder Keith Caggiano, who blasted a three-run homer in the first game. Caggiano's performance earned him Player of the Week honors...
Against NYT, however, it all came together for the Crimson for the first time since the Pacific game. Reinhard started things off with a three-run homer down the left-field line in the first inning, and Franzese added a grand slam and a two-run triple in back-to-back innings...
...Crimson didn't even give up a run again. The first sacrificial lamb was George Fox, a school in Oregon that Harvard beat 5-0. Then it was Chico State, 11-0, and in the consolation finals Harvard defeated Cal-State San Bernardino, 8-0, punctuated by a homer from junior third baseman Katina Lee that invoked the eight-run "mercy rule...
...Trojan war had Homer. The Spanish-American war had William Randolph Hearst. Every calamity has its bard, and downsizing's is Scott Adams. True, Patrick Buchanan deserves some credit for recognizing exactly what it means to employees to be expendable gaskets in America's re-engineering. But Adams, the creator of a sack-shaped, ever threatened corporate loser named Dilbert, was there first. The result is that Dilbert, which already runs in more than 800 newspapers with a readership of some 60 million people, is still the fastest-growing comic strip in the country...