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Tempted, almost certainly, by the brakeless popularity of the syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, Fox this week launches Roar (Mondays, 9 p.m. ET), a show about a reluctant prince named Conor (Heath Ledger) who in 400 A.D. fought to save the last remaining Celtic land (what would become Ireland) from the nasty, enslaving Romans. Never mind that the Roman occupation of Britain was already crumbling by then and that it never extended to Ireland in the first place. Historical exactitude isn't something to be expected from a series with a prince who looks like...
Roar's creator, '70s teen idol turned television auteur Shaun Cassidy, admits that he let his "imagination soar" with the series. What inspired him to set an epic in this period was his reading of Thomas Cahill's 1996 best seller, How the Irish Saved Civilization, a book about Celtic monks who transcribed important Latin texts for posterity. (However, in the first few episodes, at least, no scholar-monks appear...
...criterion is dominance in a sport, then Jordan's nine scoring titles is testament enough. If team success is the crucial factor, then Jordan's five championships in seven years--thanks to his 39 points in Game 6 on Friday night--trumps everyone who wasn't a Celtic or a Yankee. Jordan's only competition, really, is Ruth. Bobby Mattick, the 86-year-old scout for the Toronto Blue Jays, says, "Bill Essick, who signed Joe DiMaggio, once told me that nobody was better than Ruth. Frankly, I have an easier time imagining Jordan playing in the majors than...
Expos preceptors now work on designing departmental writing assignments with Faculty from several departments, including Classics, Celtic Studies, History, Government, Fine Arts and Sociology...
...other end of the scale, the Department of Celtic Languages and Literature has been consistently diminutive, never offering more than 20 classes in a year...