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After being just barely edged out by No. 7 Princeton—by 0.4 seconds—in their heat, the varsity eight made a heroic surge in the last stretch of the race to place third, ahead of the Tigers who had beat Radcliffe by six seconds in April...
...than 20 seconds that he can kick my ass. "That was very good," he says, his breathing only faintly increased as I get up from the mat and suck in air. "You moved it from a double-leg takedown to a single-leg." Yes, my first seven seconds were heroic. If wrestling 60-year-old playwrights were at all like bull-riding, I could...
...like the rest of the book—all over the place.The chapter “Attila the Hun’s Greatest Speech,” effectively combines famous quotes from the speeches of the modern Western canon into a monologue that critiques the violence of our heroic leaders. “Four score and seven weeks ago, we came into this land, killing and raping everything we could get our hands on,” the Hun states. “But maybe you should ask not who the Huns can kill...
...logy, but it got the actor his finest role in his best film. El Cid is up there with Lawrence of Arabia in the epic empyrean: passionate, eloquent, with a visual and emotional grandeur. As the 11th century soldier seeking peace with Spain's large Muslim minority, Heston gave heroic heft to a pacifist warrior. At the end, the Cid, close to death, orders that his body be strapped to his horse and carried out to battle so that his presence will put fear into the enemy--a ripe metaphor for the enduring power of star quality...
Mugabe’s militias, the so-called “war veterans” who are usually 20 years too young to be war veterans, have become experts in silencing opposition. Meanwhile, the co-opted national media talks about the heroic government struggles against Western imperialists seeking to regain control of the country. For instance, in 2003 Mugabe declared the Internet to be a tool of Western imperialism perpetuating “the iniquity of hegemony” during a UN conference. What he forgot to mention was his monopoly on Zimbabwean media outlets. At least the Western imperialists...