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...DISCOVERY" 120 YEARS ago of mythic Troy has always gone into the close-but-no-cigar category. Excavating on Turkey's Aegean coast, the amateur German archaeologist unearthed some ancient ruins and declared them to be all that was left of the Troy celebrated in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But the remains always seemed, even to Schliemann, a bit puny for so outsize a legend...
...Crimson had struggled gallantly against Brown in the opening found of the Women's Beanpot Tournament only to lose a tight 2-1 game in what has become an all too-often repeated ending in this true odyssey of a season...
Kimball says he began the odyssey of applying to sing at the ball when he asked himself, "Wouldn't it be great if we sang at the inauguration?" From there, Harvard's oldest A Capella group put together a promotional kit and wrote letters to the Talent Division of the Inaugural Committee...
...American in Venice cannot help feeling marginal, neither sharing in the borderless bounty of the E.C. nor joining the Japanese in their shopping-bag odyssey of the great boutiques of Europe. But then an Italian newsstand beckons -- and suddenly it's the American Century all over again. Who is that carefully coiffed blond woman staring intently from the cover of a glossy Italian magazine? A Roman film star? Princess Di? No, it's Hillary Clinton. Newspaper headlines in four languages refer familiarly to a global personality instantly recognizable as just plain "Bill...
...Denver: This was unexpectedly an anticlimax; the predicted five inches of snow turned out to be only a light dusting, and the crowd, though intense, was small. In a poetic sense, the 13-month Clinton odyssey should have ended in Albuquerque before finally heading home...