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...after 35 games filled with both heroic and forgetable performances, the Crimson and the Bears are starting all over beginning today...
...place in any history of race relations by being the first black man in movies to call a white man "boy."("Take care of the camels, boy," he genially tells his costar in the 1937 "Jericho.") But Robeson was much more than an uppity, or for that matter heroic, film star. Then and now, one gazes up at him and asks: How could one man - and a black man, at a time when African Americans were denied basic rights - have achieved and symbolized so much...
Israel's capture of Jenin was never in doubt. It will go some way toward sating Israeli hunger for revenge after the suicide attacks. But it isn't likely to halt the attacks. In Palestinian minds, Jenin will forever be a heroic stand, a Middle East Stalingrad...
...September 11, HarperCollins will also publish "Among the Heroes: The Story of United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back" by Jere Longman. The publisher describes this as "the definitive account of Flight 93's last doomed and heroic moments by the NYT reporter who covered the story." 10-city author tour...
...fight back harder when they find out the men in their lives aren't who they purported to be. Washington, in his Oscar-winning role in Training Day, portrays a murderous, on-the-take narcotics detective. His performance is charged with lightning, but he was better in his more heroic roles in The Hurricane, Crimson Tide and Malcolm X. Oscar passed him by for those performances--just as they did Will Smith this year, the one black actor to be nominated for a heroic character...