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...refugees from a crashed spacecraft escaping an interstellar war. This 1999-2002 series lasted only about as long as high school does, but the final season shows why it is missed: it cut its high emotion with humor and grounded its sometimes loopy sci-fi adventure in the Romeo-Juliet affair between space boy Max (Jason Behr) and Earth girl Liz (Shiri Appleby). Ending in a graduation--what else?--the last 18 episodes brought the saga to a satisfying, if too early...
...Today he is one of the most successful independent rappers in the business--the self-proclaimed "ghetto Bill Gates"--with a clothing line, a movie-production company, an acting career in film and on TV (he plays dad to his real-life son on Nickelodeon's Romeo) and 11 albums, the latest of which, Ghetto Bill: The Best Hustler in the Game, came out last week. His theory is that people are attracted to the sort of levity Southern rappers provide. "It's like Southern hospitality. People can party together. When you bring a Southern artist to your town...
Computerized concordances have by now recorded every use of every word in Shakespeare, and Taylor soon found interesting similarities between his discovery and Romeo and Juliet, written when Shakespeare was around 30. The poet writes that his lady's "star-like eyes win love's prize/ When they twinkle." Romeo says of Juliet's eyes that they are "two of the fairest stars in all the heaven" and that they "twinkle in their spheres." Oddly enough, though, Taylor was also pleased to find some words that Shakespeare used nowhere else. Scanty, for example, does not appear anywhere else...
...Islamic environment." The Koran and the sayings of Muhammad are taught two days a week, Arabic three days a week. Grades 2 to 12 break for prayer once a day. Beyond Scripture, a Muslim approach influences the traditional curriculum as well. When teacher Fuzia Jarad's English class read Romeo and Juliet, the girls wanted to know, "Is it love at first sight?" "Yes," the teacher answered. "As Muslims, we don't do that. The difference is lust versus love; appearance versus knowing. Islam protects you from mistakes." For assistant principal Abdallah, who is in charge of discipline, love...
...Chen, gushing over an autograph of Romeo Dallaire, former force commander of the United Nations Mission to Rwanda and a fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government this year, says he will miss interacting with the small names on campus...