Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Happily, a few chapters into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which Scholastic Press published last September, our hero receives a letter via owl informing him that he is, in fact, a famous wizard and has won a place at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And with that, the reader and Harry together are plopped down into a world every bit as fantabulous and vividly original as those created by C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl or, for that matter, George Lucas...
...eighth, Bridich proved an unlikely hero for a second time, as the Crimson put two unearned runs on the board for the eventual winning margin. Harvard used a dropped third strike and two walks to load the bases for Bridich with two outs, and the junior battled reliever John Dolan to a full count. He fouled off several 3-2 pitches before driving a hard ground ball at third base...
...eighth, Bridich proved anunlikely hero for a second time, as the Crimsonput two unearned runs on the board for theeventual winning margin. Harvard used a droppedthird strike and two walks to load the bases forBridich with two outs, and the junior battledreliever John Dolan to a full count. He fouled offseveral 3-2 pitches before driving a hard groundball at third base...
...time you thought it was the media. Or maybe the swollen federal bureaucracy. Or just possibly the irreducible idiocy of humankind. That is to say, like Neo (Keanu Reeves), the reluctant but deeply curious hero of The Matrix, you had a vague sense that something was not quite right about life as we live it, that something was preventing you from realizing all your potential...
...fact, the key piece of research, available to all, was completed a few years earlier by the one undisputed hero of this story, Harvard's John Enders. It was his team that figured out how to grow polio in test tubes--suddenly giving vaccine hunters everywhere enough virus to work with...