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...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...
Despite the belligerent objections of James Woods' National Security Advisor, the political phenagling of Ellie's nemesis, the President's opportunistic national science advisor David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), and the gentler opposition of religious scholar Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), spiritual mainstay of the White House and Ellie's romantic interest, she is selected as the transportee. After "wormholing" breathlessly through hyperspace, what she finds at the end of her journey is no little green men but a quasi-meta-physical Carl Saganish lesson (small wonder, since the movie was co-produced by the late Sagan and his widow...
...Marshall Scholar, Gell will be studying economics at Oxford for the next two years, deferring enrollment to Harvard law School...
Patrick S. Chung '96 loves being at Oxford--really. He is studying for a Master's degree in enviromental policy as a Commonwealth Scholar...
Nevertheless, several faculty members at UCLA said the cost of hiring a scholar with Hibb's history would outweight the benefits...