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Is Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus too soft?

Was Odysseus, the legendary Greek warrior, actually a wimp? The most trenchant criticisms of Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster movie involve how he portrays the hero of the tale. In the original, Odysseus is a clever, multifaceted hero who comes up with the idea for the Trojan Horse and then, after the Greeks win the decade-long war with Troy, embarks on his arduous journey home to Ithaca and his waiting wife Penelope. Now, it's true that Nolan modernizes Odysseus for a contemporary audience, but what was he supposed to do? If he'd given us the 100% Homeric Odysseus -- abducting ...

Americans are free to be suckers

Many of today's consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable cash flow to siphon off, are favored targets. Sure, there's a sucker born every minute, as P.T. Barnum allegedly said. But now we have a federal government that's gone backward in providing protection from predators just as they adopt sophisticated technology to ply their craft. Criminals now use AI to generate fake images and scrub their pitches of misspellings and odd ...

Correction

The annual Chautauqua Region Vintage Book and Paper Show is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Chautauqua Suites, 215 West Lake Road, Route 394. The incorrect date was included in Tuesday's edition

Amazon Prime to stream NHL games

TORONTO (AP) — Amazon's Prime Video will exclusively broadcast Wednesday night national NHL regular-season games in Canada in English and French beginning next season as part of a new 12-year licensing agreement with Rogers Communications Inc. announced Tuesday. The streaming service will also carry select Stanley Cup playoff series, including two first-round series and one second-round matchup annually. The agreement spans the length of Rogers' $11 billion, 12-year deal with the NHL for national media rights on all platforms in Canada through the 2037-38 season. Terms were not ...

Koivun is PGA winner in 3rd start

For a sport with a reputation for moving slowly, golf always seems to be in a hurry to appoint the next big star. Jackson Koivun is next on the list and certainly worth watching. It's not just because he won a PGA Tour event — which included the No. 1 player in the world — just two ...

Cousins begins Raiders camp atop QB depth chart

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — As Klint Kubiak oversees his first training camp as a head coach, he is faced with the daunting task of figuring out how to juggle going with Kirk Cousins as the Raiders' starting quarterback — for now — while getting the most out of overall No. 1 draft pick Fernando Mendoza. Kubiak made clear Tuesday that when Las Vegas takes the field early Wednesday for its first training camp practice that Cousins will run the first-team offense. But there also will be plenty of focus on Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner who led Indiana to the national championship ...