Word: honorables
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...plot, familiar from the 1964 epic The Fall of the Roman Empire, is this: in A.D. 180, Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) is ailing. He anoints his best general, Maximus (Crowe), a man whose motto is "Strength and Honor," as Protector of Rome until it can again become a republic. Before announcing his decision, Marcus informs his son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who lusts to be Emperor. Commodus is displeased by the news; he smothers Marcus in his bosom, murdering him with a filial embrace, and proclaims himself Emperor. In short order, the nasty boy has swiped Maximus' job, ordered...
...hardly a better actor. His Maximus is a cousin to the haunted Wigand, a powerful man troubled by the things he has to do. It is a delicate, indelible portrait. To Gladiator, a film in need of a star and a working-class hero, Crowe brings strength and honor...
HUBBLE HOOPLA After a troubled pre-adolescence, the now focused Hubble Space Telescope marked its 10th birthday last week. In honor of that out-of-this-world event, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has--what else?--launched a new website called HubbleSite hubble.stsci.edu) where surfers can study the telescope's history, browse Hubble trivia (it has circled Earth 58,400 times), learn more about the cosmos and, of course, view some of the spectacular images the telescope has collected. Quasars and pulsars and supernovas...
Lewis finds it hard to believe that maybe, just maybe, the "evil" whites who supported keeping the flag up didn't mean it as an insult to blacks at all. And the flag's intent truly is to honor the Confederate dead; whether this fact is misinterpreted shouldn't be the fault of the people who supported it. Furthermore, this is a battle flag (the Confederate naval battle flag, to be precise), the purpose of which is to fly over an army on the battlefield. At no time did this flag ever represent the political or governmental side...
Andrew J. Kin '01, a newly elected PBK member, said that he is excited about the honor...