Rather than risking the loss of his the entire vessel to Charybdis, he sailed past Scylla and sacrificed part of his crew. With a re-do of national elections scheduled for June, and anti-bailout parties enjoying substantial popular support ...

It’s also an economy that’s facing a veritable Scylla and Charybdis: the European sovereign-debt crisis, and the so-called “fiscal cliff” looming here in the states. If either one, or both together, hit this economy, it could plunge us ...

GREEK mythology tells of Odysseus having to sail between two deadly sea monsters, Scylla and Charybdis, both capable of destroying his ship and killing all on board. If he avoids one, the other will get him. He chose to skirt Scylla as the lesser evil ...

Even if one were to agree with the court’s reasoning, the latent consequences of its decision suspend all those who abhor child pornography between the proverbial perils of the Scylla and Charybdis. The case concerns the conviction of 65-year ...

To the long catalog of odd hybrids that inhabit Greek myth — the half-human, half-equine centaurs, the birdlike Harpies with their human faces, the man-eating Scylla with her doglike nether parts — we may now add Madeline Miller’s first ...

There are modern and often ecologically-significant equivalents of Homer's mighty sea monsters: the Cyclops, the Sirens, Scylla and Charibdis... and the fearsome whirlpool of Homer's tale is now the great toxic gyre of the world's plastic trash ...

The law "creates an impermissible risk of bias in the decision to prosecute" and "places Petitioner between the Scylla of refusing to pay the bounty and the Charybdis of facing the risk of a criminal trial," the suit states. Harvey wants a ...

The ride took about an hour (the local train takes twice as long). We navigated Scilla – Homer's Scylla – its fortress and looming crag poised high above the shore, across the strait from gaping-mouthed Charybdis, and drove safely on, but alarm bells ...

The only pathway to her lies between Scylla and Charybdis. Any wayfarer with even minuscule common sense would take whatever evasive action was necessary to avoid that route. My first acting experience was with a summer stock company, a job I got partly ...

But then things got worse. Even as Mr Papandreou likened himself to Homer's great survivor, Odysseus, his country's fortunes were being sunk between a modern Scylla and Charybdis: German intransigence over a financial bailout on one side, and market ...