10.8.2 update and iCal

I just updated my iMac to 10.8.2.  All is fine, except iCal which will no longer start.  It shows the screen of iCal for perhaps a half second and then provide an error message that says "Calendar quite unexpectedly" -- nothing I do can get iCal to run again.  Have any of you seen this behavior.  Reopening simply causes it to fail again.

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