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Kwaku Nyamekye has spent much of his Harvard soccer career as an unsung hero, helping to cement the Crimson back line during the last four years...
Judge William Wayne Justice was a hero of mine. He set the pace for so-called activist judges and in the process became the most despised man in Texas. When Wayne was appointed a federal district judge in 1968, the South was not through fighting the Civil War. The most unpopular people were those, like Wayne, who enforced desegregation in schools...
...think Ralph Nader is an American hero, and I think it was really powerful for him to put in perspective how the status quo when he was here was taken as the way things should be,” said Craig S. Altemose, a third-year law student at HLS and a joint degree candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School...
After Slumdog Millionaire's triumph at the Oscars, the children were catapulted into stardom. Azhar tells TIME with pride, "the children in my school call me a hero." Lade, who monitors the children's progress at school through regular updates from the teachers, corroborates that the other children are awed by their status. She says the combination of sudden fame without balancing guidance at home has made the child stars lose touch with reality. "This is a matter of grave concern," says Noshir Dadrawala, one of the trustees. "Both the children have attendance below 40%. They are traveling...
...many Sri Lankans, Lieut. General Sarath Fonseka is a bit of a hero. Now the equivalent of the U.S. military's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Fonseka was the former army commander who helped strategize and lead the campaign that put a decisive end to the quarter-century-long separatist war of the Tamil Tigers. The intensity of the onslaught raised criticism around the world, including a 68-page State Department report to the U.S. Congress that took to task the conduct of both government forces and the Tigers. Now, what appears to be an attempt...