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Perhaps we make a mistake to insist that the monarchy should be majestic. That is only one way for the royals to be exemplary. Homer's gods on Olympus, after all, played out elaborate soap operas of venality, stupidity, cruelty and greed. The Windsors, bearing up well under their hereditary burden of chinlessness and a tendency to run to twits, managed nonetheless to turn the saga of the stunningly unbright Duke and Duchess of Windsor into one of the century's great love stories. Perhaps Charles and Diana, in their follies, are simply enlarging the dramatic franchise of the family...
...back Ron McKelvey was revealed to be 30-year-old Ron Weaver. Driven by an undiminished desire to play college football, Weaver had changed his identity and illegally prolonged his college football career for six years. The Division I football program of the University of Texas was his Mount Olympus, an untapped fountain of youth...
...forum was devoted to the mythology of the "called shot" in the 1932 World Series, an incident in which Ruth allegedly pointed to the bleachers to announce the home run he promptly hit on the next pitch. "Ancient Olympus" came up in passing...
...watch the student government debate the senior class's annual joke resolution with the tenscity of the U.S. Senate discussing health care reform. (Among other things, the proposal called for Dalton's first-year student to "refer to any area where a group of seniors has gathered as Mt. Olympus...
...last remaining superpower, but the U.S. can now claim to be the bargain basement of the world. Signs of this distinction are everywhere this summer -- atop the Empire State Building, for instance, where Klaus Graumann, 27, a molecular biologist from Austria, is snapping pictures with his just acquired Olympus camera, wearing jeans, a polo shirt and running shoes also bought during his visit. "We say, 'O.K., we've seen the museums. Let's get a sandwich and go to the department store,' " notes Graumann...