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...Rather than philosopher-kings, Leonidas’ actual Sparta was a society of fighter-kings, where “equals” were the fearless warrior class bred to serve the hawkish state. In fact, the state provided hordes of slave workers, helots, to work the lands of “equals.” Sparta’s economic and social arrangement was built around the assumption that colonized cities would be enslaved and, thanks to their labor, Spartan armies would be fed and clothed. How is that for an “age of freedom?...
...graduated in ’68), the National Humanities Center, the Educational Advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lawrence R. Ricciardi, a trustee at the Mellon Foundation, worked with Faust as the organization moved between presidents. “Drew has been utterly fearless and highly principled in dealing with these issues,” Ricciardi says, “always without losing her sense of humor...
...Christians in its south. Akinola, born into the Yoruba tribe, itself divided by the two faiths, was shaped in a crucible of the religious strife that has by now taken thousands of lives on both sides. That experience, combined with his naturally combative and entrepreneurial nature, made him a fearless herald of Christ. Starting when he became a bishop in 1989, Akinola developed Nigeria's hewn-from-the-forest capital, Abuja, into a great Anglican center. Later, he habitually sent bishops to non-Christian areas to preach the Gospel. Muslims sometimes responded violently, but the church gained a presence...
...come not from the PRC, but from our own hemisphere. So much for containment. A new leader, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, is taking a Fidel Castro/Che Guevara approach to government: one part faux-Socialist, one part seriously Communist, one part smokin’ hot. President Castro, fearless leader (or, you know, dictator) of Cuba for more than thirty years, transferred his governing powers to his brother in July 2006 due to illness. Despite having a foot and a half in the grave by all reports but the Cuban government’s own, Castro?...
...played a seasoned cop and an eccentric attorney, but for many people, William Shatner will always be a fearless space explorer from a long-gone TV series--a role he is now handing off to another actor. Shortly after Shatner, 75, was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame last month, he talked with TIME's Clayton Neuman about bad game shows, bringing peace to the Middle East and, unavoidably, the Captain Kirk Star Trek legacy...