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...Russia. But that was a year ago. Today, as you tally up Gasol's appearance with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals in June, the Spanish soccer team's victory in the European Cup, Rafael Nadal's Wimbledon defeat of Roger Federer, and Carlos Sastre's triumph at the Tour de France, it's pretty obvious Spanish athletes have conquered the sporting world...
...much, that his feel for medieval history is patchy. (Though as a former Dungeons & Dragons aficionado, I feel bound to point out that crossbows do not fire arrows; they fire bolts or quarrels.) What bothers me is that The Gargoyle is a hymn to the power of love to triumph over time. Love triumphs over time only in romance novels. In literature, as in life, it goes the other way around. As the poet Delmore Schwartz put it, Time is the fire in which we burn...
...Bikila's triumph was all the more stunning because it happened in the capital of Ethiopia's former military occupier. Legend has it that he made his decisive move in the race just as he passed the Axum Obelisk, a towering stela that Mussolini had brought back from Ethiopia as war loot. Four years later in Tokyo, Bikila won gold again, the first man to defend his Olympic marathon title. This time he wore shoes...
Such moves signal the latest triumph of realism over ideology--and a victory for Rice and her diplomatic team over the neoconservatives led by Vice President Dick Cheney. Since Rice took the helm at State in 2005, she has steadily consolidated her authority over foreign policy. If her clout isn't absolute, it is approaching the veto-proof swat that Cheney enjoyed as the secret vicar of national security...
...wife, Alice (Kathryn Hahn), whose cooped-up loathing of Derek propels her into the loins of a very surprised Dale. But Derek is just here as the villain, and Alice to wean Dale out of babyhood. The main thrust is to propel Brennan and Dale from torpor to triumph, from don't-invite-ems to can't-do-without...