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They will march under the five-ringed Olympic flag and carry a placard -- presumably large -- reading UNIFIED TEAM OF THE NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEES OF RUSSIA, UKRAINE, BELARUS, KAZAKHSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN. If a team member wins a gold medal, the Olympic hymn, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, will be played during the awards ceremony, at which, N.O.C. officials expect, the athlete may have his or her home country announced. The full Unified Team includes 192 athletes. About 160 will actually compete, and of those, 148 are from Russia...
...having their work heard by an enthusiastic public. The poetic abilities of many contestants may be open to debate, but the audience is always in top form. On a typical evening a rambling poem about using nuclear weapons to blow up political banquets brings raucous cheers. A watery ode to existentialism ("Nothing that is worth having actually is . . .") draws equally good-natured jeers...
...centerpiece of the event was the reading of an "Ode to Dudley House" by Graduate Student Council member Courtenay W. Moore...
...grave every time a Crimson editorial follows his "I do not agree with what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it" reasoning? I don't think Voltaire reads The Crimson. I'd bet even the poet who penned the camel ode would be willing to overlook my youthful indiscretion...
...attentions are confined to his wives (he reportedly has three, and six sons), he still has an eye for women. Fahd was so smitten with Britain's Margaret Thatcher when he met her in 1975 that he is said to have ordered his court poet to compose an ode to her. An excerpt, as printed in a London tabloid: "Her figure is more attractive than the figure of any cherished wife/ or coveted concubine...