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...boycott threats as unfocused. "It's not as if people aren't shopping on Telegraph Avenue," the city's main artery, says Snehal Shingavi, one of the leaders of Berkeley's Stop the War coalition. "I think it was quite heroic what the council did." Berkeley's version of heroism dates back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964, when students first used civil disobedience to overturn a ban on campus activism. Four decades later, that activism may be less dramatic, but it is at least more colorful. Marches these days include the visually arresting 20-ft. peace puppets wielded...
...boycott threats as unfocused. "It's not as if people aren't shopping on Telegraph Avenue," the city's main artery, says Snehal Shingavi, one of the leaders of Berkeley's Stop the War coalition. "I think it was quite heroic what the council did." Berkeley's version of heroism dates back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964, when students first used civil disobedience to overturn a ban on campus activism. Four decades later, that activism may be less dramatic, but it is at least more colorful. Marches these days include the visually arresting 20-ft. peace puppets wielded...
...polls are showing that respect for government--and even for politicians--is rising as people contemplate the heroism of cops and fire fighters--government workers all--on Sept. 11. As we are forced to revise our low estimation of pols from President Bush on down. As it dawns on us that defeating terrorism is not a task that can be privatized or turned over to the states. But will all this newfound appreciation last if it requires people to give up more than a few minutes talking to a pollster...
...time of ordinary heroes--fire fighters, airplane passengers--both series aptly focus on the ordinariness of heroism. Smallville's Clark does surreptitious good deeds in between teen heartbreaks; on The Tick, superheroism is just another job, full of headaches and rivalries. And in a way, their pre-Sept. 11 sensibilities are just as appropriate. As their viewers have been urged to do, these postmodern, pre-terror-war creations are living life as they would have lived it on Sept. 10. And these days that is the most superhuman feat...
...wrong choice. "We have to live with the devastation and loss he caused, but we don't need to look at that evil face, big and bold on the cover of your magazine," wrote an angry woman. A California critic wondered, "Why, with the thousands of images of heroism and patriotism available at this time, did you choose him for your cover?" A Greeley, Colo., reader railed, "How dare you dignify this monstrous creature! Isn't it enough that we have to hear his name 50 times a day?" But a Pennsylvanian chose to indulge in some gallows humor: "Darts...