Historian Mary Beard, who has been branded "too ugly for TV" by self-proclaimed "beautiful journalist" Samantha Brick, has said she will not lose any sleep over a "silly fuss". full story ![]()

The first thing you’ll want to know is whether she’s pretty. Last year, the TV producer-turned-expat French housewife Samantha Brick wrote an article for the Daily Mail headlined “Why women hate me for being beautiful”, which went not just viral but pandemic.
standard.co.uk (2 months and 3 days ago)
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) -- Roger Clemens says he's "not going to lose any sleep" over failing to make the Hall of Fame last month.
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Roger Clemens says he's "not going to lose any sleep" over failing to make the Hall of Fame last month.
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This are both sides of some dude's beard featuring a raptor and apatosaurus facing off in battle. Or maybe just standing there making eyes at each other. Apparently the beard won some school's 'teacher beard growing competition', which, as far as prestige goes, is only one step up from my annual 'roommate beard growing competition'. I won the last two years in a row just for...
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Mary Beard, the television historian, says she has no time for the Culture Secretary's view that the arts should prove their worth to the economy
telegraph.co.uk (23 days ago)
Mary Beard is Britain’s most famous classicist. She is also Britain’s most prolific reviewer of books on classical subjects. As...
thetimes.co.uk (2 months and 2 days ago)

Mary Beard has said she does not regret the "vulnerability of youth" even though it led her to being coerced into sex - possibly even raped - like many other young women.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 4 days ago)

Mary Beard, a professor at Cambridge who has popularized the study of antiquity through TV and her blog, was the subject of vicious online attacks after a BBC appearance.
nytimes.com (3 months and 6 days ago)

Mary Beard breathes new life into the classics, finds Philip Womack, reviewing her collection of essays, Confronting the Classics.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 19 days ago)

Where was AA Gill last night? Mary Beard, the Cambridge classicist and Londoner’s Diary pin-up, had invited the Sunday Times critic to the Society of Antiquaries off Piccadilly for the launch of her book Confronting the Classics.
standard.co.uk (2 months and 18 days ago)
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