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...involuntary gasps at plays like Ron Lewis’ three-pointer to send Ohio St. and Xavier into overtime.Throughout this year’s NCAA Tournament, I’ve felt entirely cut off from sports’ most original and passionate event – a three-week odyssey into the quintessential euphoria and tragedy of athletics. Its closest rival in intensity, ecstasy and heartbreak is the World Cup, but the quadrennial soccer tournament lacks the year-to-year drama that sees teams swing from No. 1 and No. 2 seeds to No. 7 and No. 8s fighting...
Being accepted into Sweden is relatively simple compared with what it takes to actually get there. Iraqis say the odyssey north typically costs $10,000 per person and involves relying on a network of nameless smugglers and middlemen. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports--red passports, as the Iraqis call them, which contain the refugees' real photos but use other people's names. "Daniel," 23, a Christian Iraqi student sitting in a Stockholm caf, said he bought a fake Iraqi passport...
...know, pretty great stuff. Here's the demise of Euryalus: "He writhes in death/ as blood flows over his shapely limbs, his neck droops,/ sinking over a shoulder, limp as a crimson flower/ cut off by a passing plow." Fagles published terrific translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey a few years ago, so maybe I shouldn't have been gobsmacked by his Virgil. They're all quite popular too, part of a renewed passion for the classical world. The culture has lately offered up for mass consumption two new histories of the Peloponnesian War, a whacking great biography...
...only after his eldest son was murdered by one of the Protestant gangs that McCord proved how tough he really is - by taking on not only the killers, but also the police spymasters alleged to have shielded them from justice. McCord's decade-long odyssey that turned him from street fighter to amateur investigator was vindicated, Monday, when the official police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, alleged that officers of the Special Branch of Britain's Royal Ulster Constabulary had knowingly colluded with Protestant paramilitaries responsible for at least a dozen murders, shielding them from justice. Her report...
...Grinnell, Cech majored in chemistry, but he describes an undergraduate experience steeped in the liberal arts. “I was to derive as much enjoyment studying Homer’s Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno, and Constitutional History as Chemistry,” he writes in his Nobel autobiography...