Word: bravest
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...front. But No. 5 Harvard? At a 41? By all counts, the Crimson should have been gassed by the final 500 meters. “Apparently, [heavyweight coach] Harry Parker came up to some of the guys and said, ‘Congratulations, guys. That’s the bravest race I’ve ever seen rowed,’” Hafner says.The Crimson came up just 0.076 seconds short, falling in the narrowest of photo finishes to Cornell—the same crew that had turned Sprints into a lopsided race for second two weeks earlier...
...Bravest Guy in al-Anbar Province - Any Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician (EOD Tech). How'd you like a job that required you to defuse bombs in a hole in the middle of the road that very likely are booby-trapped or connected by wire to a bad guy who's just waiting for you to get close to the bomb before he clicks the detonator? Every day. Sanitation workers in New York City get paid more than these guys. Talk about courage and commitment...
...Second Bravest Guy in al-Anbar Province - It's a 20,000-way tie among all these Marines and Soldiers who venture out on the highways and through the towns of al-Anbar every day, not knowing if it will be their last - and for a couple of them, it will...
...most of the men and women appearing here, the best therapy was getting active: agitating for veterans' rights and a greater awareness of the war's human cost. And there's the hope the film leaves its viewers with. These articulate, caring young people are our best and bravest. Some of them should be in Congress, as the nagging conscience of the U.S. adventure in Iraq. Their passion makes The Ground Truth by far the finest film to emerge from the awful tangle of 9/11 and the Iraq...
...embattled writer and public intellectual who has almost ceased to exist. Prolific and serene, Naguib-bey stood his ground, which was Egypt. He did not leave, even to collect his Nobel Prize. He wrote about growing up in Cairo, about movie stars, madmen, beggars, pashas, gods and religion. His bravest book is Children of the Alley, with its parable of Islam--banned in most Arab countries. Condemned to death in a fatwa issued by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, he continued defiantly walking the streets of Cairo until one day in 1994 he was stabbed by a fanatic...