Regarding Mary Kissel's "The Weekend Interview with Edward DeMarco—The Man Who Took on Fannie Mae" (July 12): Edward DeMarco may as well turn out the lights because it appears his may be the ...

Or in even more overblown comparisons, The New York Times quotes a literary agent likening the head of Hachette to "Horatius at the Bridge,"…referring to the soldier of legend who single ...

It’s been almost 50 years since I’ve thought of Horatius at the bridge. As a student at Loyola Academy, a Jesuit high school in Wilmette, Ill., I was required to study Latin. My teacher for ...

Harvard’s ace anthropologist, Earnest Albert Hooton, summed it up this way: “Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has stood like Horatius at the land bridge between Asia and North America, mowing down with ...