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...ndez Manchón Madrid In "{A Brief} History Of Heroes," author Tristram Hunt asked how our current crop of heroes measures up to the legends of the past. That's like asking whether we moderns are genuine humans compared to the superhumans of yore. One unchanging aspect of heroism is that the heroes who endure have all been overpraised by later generations. Gideon Suleman Kaduna, Nigeria I was stunned to see your cover identifying the two freed Italian hostages, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, as European heroes. In light of some of Torretta's statements after she was released...
Poor man--he's addicted to heroism. Late for an important date, he can't help helping an old lady whose cat is up a tree (by uprooting the tree and shaking the kitty down). He leaps tall buildings to catch a thief, and zooms into the air to save a man plummeting to the ground. All right, so he's late for his date. All right, the date is his own wedding. But a man's got to do his job. And when his name is Mr. Incredible, most stalwart of all superheroes, a job can be an obsession...
With Allison sandwiched between us, I never saw his gun, and I barely heard the command, but I wasn’t about to forget the parental advice that had banished any notions of heroism from my head. The contents of my wallet and a digital camera later, the train pulled into 36th St. After the four fled, the conductor pulled out of the station, unobservant witnesses and Bad Samaritans...
...heroism of the Greeks is not the interesting or pertinent aspect of the story. What are important are the lessons that the Byzantine Empire’s decline and collapse can teach us. While the current situation we face today is by no means identical to that which faced Europe over five hundred years ago, there are enough similarities to warrant comparison...
There are those who think of terrorist acts as acts of ultimate heroism and nobility. Indeed, these people are all over the world. They are in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and they are in Indonesia and Pakistan, and they are in Chechnya, and they are in Afghanistan, and they are in Africa, and they are in Latin America. They are in every place where children are taught how to be proud, yet when they grow up all they feel is humiliation as their nations stumble from one failure to another; and they are in every place where a father...