Word: heroism
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...fear of flying, the world may have seen its last airplane hijacking for a while - another unintended and unexpected consequence of Sept. 11. Once an essential tool of terrorists, hijackings will be next to impossible as a result of improved security and the general public's vigilance. The heroism of passengers like Todd Beamer on United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania means that would-be hijackers will be thwarted by the fury of fellow travelers. People like Beamer have helped start a new trend: ordinary people as the new celebrities...
...more intimate link between Enron and the Bush team, one more unwelcome story at a time when the President is hoping that his big speech will change the subject back to heroism and unity and patriotism, the themes that have helped make him so popular of late. But even Bush's poll numbers--playing a game that Enron accountants know so well--are beginning to tell two different stories at the same time. For a President with two wars to fight and a 77% approval rating in the new TIME/CNN poll, the Enron story has been up to now little...
...draft dodger and an egomaniac. Ali spent a large part of his life trying to beat out other men's brains in a barbaric activity known as prizefighting. Sadly, his opponents tried to do the same to him, and he has paid a big price for this. His "heroism" is more the media's creation than the general public's opinion. The events of recent months tell us what real heroism is all about. JAMES PULLEN St. Louis...
...turned out that the decadence and the flabbiness were just summer wear, thrown off immediately in the rescue at the World Trade Center, the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93 (who took their murderers to their death and probably saved the White House), the rapid national acceptance of the need for a difficult new world war. In an instant, the yellow ribbons--emblems of America held hostage, of plea bargaining with evil--gave way to star-spangled flags...
...distinct--and as commercial--a New York region as the theater district or the garment district. It's a throbbing 16-acre region populated by construction workers, itinerant volunteers, movie stars, religious proselytizers, uniformed officers, National Guard members, souvenir hawkers and more tourists than anywhere else in the city. Heroism has been replaced by capitalism New York-style...