Word: heroisms
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...Kremlin made no move to prop him up because Saakashvili had won the respect of Russian President Vladimir Putin by successfully balancing Russian and U.S. interests in the region. Arriving in Batumi to a hero's welcome early Thursday morning, Saakashvili thanked the Ajarians for their "unprecedented heroism and dignity." In Tbilisi, Nino Burjanadze, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, told Time that Georgia had "shown the whole world how important democratic principles are to us." Abashidze was "a classic Soviet-era apparatchik," says Robert Parsons, head of the Georgian service at Radio Liberty in Prague. He effectively stripped opposition parties...
PATRIOT ACT Pat Tillman, the football star who became a Ranger, didn't aspire to heroism. But his life defined...
...World Trade Center and struck a pose with a veteran fire fighter. If that was Bush's most memorable day, then something was wrong from the beginning. Turning up three days late, after being whisked around the country for his own safety, isn't my idea of heroism. Winston Churchill would have donned his helmet and been there on 9/11, regardless of security concerns. Jean Lamore Paris...
...Mississippi and riding lightning bolts, but here he’s just one soldier with his best days far behind him. Even the Mexican soldiers in Santa Anna’s army are impressed and fascinated by the tales of the famous Crockett and often secretly support him. Combining heroism with humor, Thornton gives a fantastic, flawed performance as Crockett...
...political palm reader Bill Clinton who warned his fellow Democrats that in dangerous times, people may prefer a leader who is strong and wrong to one who is weak and right. That may be one reason that, even this early on, we have heard about Kerry's personal heroism in Vietnam; we may not know where the snipers are today, but we know he had the guts to run toward one 35 years ago. As he makes his own kind of strength a virtue, however, he must somehow try to make Bush's a fault: the President may indeed...