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...seeking to absorb and understand the power of those ties and the "splendour and desolation" of the land, Glass set out from Alexandretta, now in southern Turkey, to Aqaba in Jordan, following the invasion path used by Alexander the Great and the Crusaders. His odyssey ended abruptly when a peculiarly modern kind of tribe, the Hizballah, kidnaped and held him hostage in Beirut for two months until his escape. The trip is the framework for this book. He describes it as a "literary and spiritual ramble through the history of a troubled land." It is really a travelogue, letting...
...simply cashing in on the upper niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents in Atlanta raided an Eastern Airlines flight twice in two days, seizing 100 illegal aliens, including several Romanians who had paid $6,000 apiece for a secret twelve-day odyssey through such cities as East Berlin, Havana and Mexico City...
...democratic odyssey of Mejstrik, who spent time in Tiananmen Square last May, began when he formed a national student network of college newspapers; Mejstrik, a third-year student at DAMU, the Academy of Theatrical Arts, was the editor of a student newspaper called Cafe...
After playing--and splitting--home-and-home series against each other, the league's traveling partners are couples once again for the start of the five-week Friday-Saturday night odyssey for the Ivy flag...
...first-place Harvard Crimson, the perfect way to start that odyssey is at home--throw a log in the fireplace, thank you--at Briggs Cage, which welcomes Yale tonight and Brown tomorrow night (both 7:30 p.m. tipoff). The Elis (11-5 overall, 2-2 Ivy) and Bruins (5-11, 2-2) recently split a home-and-home series, with each team claiming a two-point victory on its home court...