Jack Bell New York Times

The ode to Paul the Octopus is complete. Talismanic is certainly an overused word (have you ever seen it used more than in soccer stories, mostly from across the sea?), but it seems it applies to Paul, at least in the mind of soccer-crazed Germans.On Thursday in Oberhausen, Germany, the tentacled star of last summer's World Cup was immortalized, so...

The ode to Paul the Octopus is complete. Talismanic is certainly an overused word (have you ever seen it used more than in soccer stories, mostly from across the sea?), but it seems it applies to Paul, at least in the mind of soccer-crazed Germans.On Thursday in Oberhausen, Germany, the tentacled star of last summer's World Cup was immortalized, so...