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Which seems fitting. Smiley's creator, John le Carré, 45, is the premier spy novelist of his time. Perhaps of all time. In part, of course, Le Carré's success is due to subject matter. Espionage is an immemorial tradition. In Sparta, undercover agents formed the Krypteia?the Secret Force. Two thousand years later the Krypteia remains forceful, but not quite as secret. Scarcely a month passes without some well-broadcast defection from Eastern Europe; hardly a week goes by without some new charge about intelligence excesses in the West. In the post-Watergate epoch, almost any revelation seems credible...
...aware that in the days before the battle at Marathon, Pheidippides was detailed to run to Sparta (approximately 150 miles) to ask for aid? He then ran back to Athens and shortly thereafter took active part in a battle that lasted several hours. Finally he was ordered to run from the site of the battle to Athens to announce the Athenian victory. If one of the modern Boston Marathon runners can match this record...
...Athens vs. Sparta all over again, Thucydides fans. Harvard came up with the theatrics and brilliant performances but it was arch-rival Northeastern that prevailed with solid consistent muscle, winning the GBCs last Sunday, 117 1/2 to the Crimson's second place tally...
Some time later, driving along a Georgia road, Varn noticed he was in Terrell County and learned its namesake was a second Dr. John Terrel, from Sparta, Ga. Varn, who can trace his paternal lineage back to the late 1600s, wondered if there was any connections between the Georgia and the Mississippi Terrells and this Christmas he says he hopes to find...
Varn will go to Sparta, searching through birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, deeds, wills and other documents. Although the work is tedious and may yield few results, Varn says he enjoys...