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Troilus and Cressida opens with the Greek forces, led by Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, having continually besieged Troy for the previous seven years. Shakespeare concentrates on the opposition between the Greek hero Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Troilus and Cressida is considered a tragedy, playing upon the death of its tragic hero, Hector. Shakespeare also shows how the war caused by one love affair destroys another. The stories of the love between the Trojan Troilus and the Grecian Cressida, encouraged by her uncle Pandarus and of Cressida's desertion of Troilus for the Greek Diomedes, are medieval additions to the heroic...
...case that this matter of prurient press intrusion - and of private lives having public consequences - dates back not just to, say, Donna Rice, Gary Hart and the Monkey Business, but to Helen and Paris and the Trojan War? Did King David's behavior with Bathsheba tell us something we needed to know about the character issue? Would you have voted for King David? He did, after all, behave like a louse...
...Aren't you? The young, hip, cutting-edge, counterculture-but-inside-the-Establishment, Trojan-horse...
...ambitious reshaping of the tax code, but he got a tax cut to run on. (In 1999 he got another--the two biggest in Texas history, as he never tires of saying.) Bush describes his salvaging of the '97 tax cut as a bold stroke, the triumph of his Trojan horse strategy. Laney says, "He took a defeat and turned it into pretty good spin...
...experts say, is that while Deutch used his computer for surfing the Internet and sending e-mail, he could have exposed all of his documents to hackers. "If the data is insecure" - as it was in this case - "it's theoretically possible that someone could install a so-called Trojan horse on Deutch's computer without his knowledge," says TIME technology reporter Chris Taylor. "It would have appeared as an attachment on an e-mail message, and he would have had to open it to activate it. The program, once it installed itself, would allow the interlopers to view...