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...conversations among professors and nurses, among technicians and police officers, we remembered what made Harvard great—things we too long took for granted. Even as the president’s defenders created the public myth that a handful of lazy leftist professors had brought down a heroic bold thinker, the Faculty talked intensively about what really had gone wrong. Now that we have relearned important lessons about the values of the University, we must not forget them. In most analyses of Harvard’s turmoil, too much has been made of the mysterious uniqueness of academic culture...
...clear to me then, he would undoubtedly have said the same.We live in an era in which a parent’s merely showing up to his or her child’s baseball or soccer game is often regarded as an atypical or even a heroic act. Dad, for his part, never saw it that way. Though his job kept him plenty busy, he was a fixture on the little league sidelines, juggling depositions and trial preparation, batting orders and pitching rotations. Rather than choose between his children, he coached all three, spring and autumn, for the better part...
...never forget the thousands of Marines, many on their third and fourth tours, whose conduct on this most treacherous of battlefields has been not just honorable, but selfless and heroic. And even if proved, Haditha is no My Lai, with its victims in the hundreds, attendant sexual crimes, direct officer involvement and high-level cover-up by a dozen officers, including colonels and generals...
...loss of its Louisville media empire in 1986, Bingham refocused his life.At Bingham’s funeral on April 6, Rev. Alfred R. Shands of the Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville delivered the homily. “With your mustache and straggly beard you were Don Quixote on horseback, heroic, dreaming the impossible dream, sometimes tilting at windmills, yes, but fighting for causes, slaying dragons.”Until near the end of his life, Bingham rose each day at 5:45 a.m. to row his single—the cheapest that could be bought—along the Ohio...
...Sending a mere mortal down the road toward eternal sainthood of the church requires two essential elements: that the candidate lived a saintly life of "heroic virtue," and that at least one bonafide miracle can be linked to him after his death. That would lead to beatification, which if followed by another confirmed miracle, would lead to canonization. Father Peter Gumpel, an official with the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, believes this pope wants to let the normal process run its course. Asked when, Gumpel said he is not a fortune teller, but that it is probably "a question...