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...eager distillers. In hopes of an American stampede into bullion, speculators from Amsterdam to Zurich to Johannesburg have engaged in a considerable gold rush of their own. Last week alone, the price of "free market" gold traded on the London exchange climbed by $7.50 to a record $195 per troy ounce.* That was up from $155 just four months ago, when Congress passed the law lifting the ban, and represented a 75% increase in the price within a year...
...poem of force," French Philosopher Simone Weil once called the Iliad in what must be regarded as howling Gallic understatement. On Homer's blood-drenched plains of Troy, spears cleave through a man's tongue and shatter his teeth or pierce an eye socket. Swords sever heads. Armies mow down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer...
...that makes a masterpiece of the Iliad, and makes this translation a fitting companion to Fitzgerald's justly celebrated Odyssey. Two cities decorate the shield of Achilles, newly forged for the climactic duel with Hector, champion of the Trojans. One city is at war, its walls besieged like Troy's. The second city is at peace. In the margins of Fitzgerald's Iliad, this second city keeps peeping through, full of tender wives, proud fathers, grazing cattle, freshly plowed fields, fruitful vineyards and (see the comparative samples in box) boys and girls dancing...
...paper's political correspondent, and Reporter Dave Anderson, 32, five days before the November elections. Their story accused State Representative James Damman, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, of conflicts of interest arising from his land deals while a member of the city commission and zoning board of Troy, a Detroit suburb...
...fiddle to Franz Joseph's imperious mother Sophie. Eventually, the vivacious queen declared a kind of independence, becoming the adored champion of the cause of home rule for Hungary, traveling incessantly: now to England to ride after hounds, now to Turkey to explore Schliemann's diggings at Troy. She even translated Shakespearean plays into modern Greek. Primping and dieting narcissistically, Elisabeth remained an international beauty until she was 60, when she was killed by an Italian anarchist while boarding a steamer on Lake Geneva...