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...screen. And when they do, it is usually The Odyssey they turn to. That picaresque travelogue through the wilder outposts of ancient Greece has inspired ordinary films (Kirk Douglas in a mid-'50s Ulysses), funny ones (the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and one masterpiece (Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, a mesmeric synopsis of a century of Greek history). But where's The Iliad? Hard to find, except in the 1956 Helen of Troy, a sober retelling from the Trojans' point of view...
...jazz from Natalie Cole and George Benson sold out as quickly as Radiohead did. For a concentrated dose of music, nothing quite matches the North Sea Jazz Festival (July 11-13), which packs around 250 acts into one weekend in The Hague. "You make your own festival," says director Theo van den Hoek. Visitors can go pure with Chicago's spectacular pianist-singer Patricia Barber and trumpeter Dave Douglas, or leaven tradition with deep house, like Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft, or with klezmer, like John Zorn's Electric Masada. If that's all too demanding, no problem: a full weekend...
...really great season,” said senior Theo Ludwick. “It just ended in a really poor way when we lost that last game to an unranked Brown team. We played well, but were just unlucky...
...What we want to do is look forward to next year and not worry about what happened now,” said senior Theo Ludwick...
...firm. When Freddie Heineken died last year, control of his brewing colossus passed to his daughter and sole heir, Charlene de Carvalho Heineken, 48. She lives in London with her banker husband and their five young children, and she has no involvement with day-to-day operations. Karl and Theo Albrecht, the secretive German brothers who rank as the richest people in Europe, are withdrawing from the management of their firm, discount retailer Aldi. Sweden's Ingvar Kamprad, who created the IKEA furniture chain, has retired to a Swiss lakeside resort, leaving ownership of his empire to a foundation...