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...Alexander Stille points out in Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (Pantheon; 467 pages; $27.50), this unholy alliance had a dramatic payoff. To the embarrassment of police, Mafia gunmen ambushed and killed the notorious, elusive bandit Salvatore Giuliano, who for years had terrorized rural Sicily. By appearing to abet law and order, the Mafia acquired a prestige and cachet that it had never possessed since first surfacing in the early 19th century...
...cherished tenet of sports mythology that the champion possesses kinetic genius matched-perhaps even exceeded-by an untrammeled yearning to win. The most captivating figures in our pantheon are those who fulfill their athletic promise through their passion...
...pantheon of immortal lovers--Tristram and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Neil and Angelica--we now may add Harvard's own Rebecca Boggs '95 and her fiance (Duke University's) Michael Wenthe. Or so a recent, cloying profile of the couple in The Boston Globe would have us believe...
...empires that preceded them. So when Chen Yun died at 89 last Monday, the citizens of Beijing braced themselves for the usual run of lowered flags, martial music, and long paeans to his revolutionary contributions. After all, Chen ranked second only to Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping in China's pantheon of post-Mao leaders, and the two were often viewed as fierce rivals...
Hanks could be a parodist or a prophet when he says, "I guarantee that, when their first film premieres, everyone will say, 'This is it? This is what these three geniuses have come up with?' Unless it immediately enters the pantheon as one of the three highest-grossing films of all time, everybody will ask what's the big deal...