Word: heroes
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It’s hard to believe that pre-law students at one of the most prestigious universities in the world would object to letting a war hero like James W. Gilchrist speak at their campus about the “Minutemen” and their position on immigration reform (“Anti-Illegal Alien Speaker Banned,” News, Oct. 19). Gilchrist is a Purple Heart veteran who nearly died protecting these insecure future lawyers’ right to speak. It is a sad day in America when those who typically advocate free speech want to silence...
...half sandwich that I was immediately drawn to. An unsteady handful of crisp wax paper edges, this kid was holding a beast. Turkey, capicola (say ‘gabagool’), roast beef, tomato, lettuce, and what smelled like horseradish dressing all warmed on a perfect looking half hero. I took a look at my sandwich, the old stand-by, and I briefly weighed my options. Then the responsible, mature thought occurred to me; I couldn’t trade food with this little kid. He might be allergic (these days it seems like every kid is), contagious...
...best-known figures in Britain. A talented soccer player whose career was cut short by injury, he went into management, leading not one but two unfashionable clubs to the English championship and then winning the European Cup two years in a row. He was a clever, cocky, working-class hero with an opinion on everything from Margaret Thatcher (against) to striking miners (for). Brilliant, needy, self-destructive - he was an alcoholic and had a liver transplant before he died in 2004 - he combined humor, bombast, friendships and rivalries in a long and very public display of how to be charming...
...will not have him made into some kind of folk hero...
...Vogelman played the socially awkward 28-year-old Hal, a former student of Robert who is clearly in love with Catherine. Nee-Vogelman did a great job of playing both the math-geek trying to impress the daughter of his hero and the intellectual who, during the second half of the play, works tirelessly to validate a proof to save Catherine’s sanity...