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...ANCIENT times, Cato the Elder ended each and every one of his speeches before the Roman Senate with the words "Cartago delenda est"--"Carthage must be destroyed." And the city-state across the Mediterranean--Rome's largest commercial rival--eventually was annihilated in the course of the Punic Wars...
...will dash into the great venture with all that pride and spirit an ancient race has given me." The man's generation, destined for the trenches at Ypres and the Somme, was almost innocent enough to ship off thinking of Horace's lines: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori." Years later, American boys flying to Vietnam sometimes unreeled John Wayne movies in their head. That was the model; that was what a man should look like, act like, when he goes...
EQUAL JUSTICE (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EST). A band of young lawyers struggle to retain their ideals, and win a few cases, in a big-city D.A.'s office. ABC's new courtroom series matches up well against NBC's L.A. Law: more grit and less sanctimony...
ELVIS (ABC, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. EST). ABC's new bio series offers two surprises. Rather than a cynical attempt to cash in on Elvismania, it is an unpretentious look at the King's early years. Surprise No. 2: despite glowing reviews and a good time slot, Elvis is walking on Lonely Street in the ratings...
CHANGES: CONVERSATIONS WITH JANE PAULEY (NBC, March 13, 10 p.m. EST). Jane Pauley interviews people who have gone through major personal or professional transitions in her first prime-time special since she left the Today show after 13 years...