Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soldiers. "And don't forget," King wrote, "a huge Wood gathering, BBQ and bashing on July 4." Hoover explained that a "bashing" meant killing a black man. King was by now in the process of becoming a white-supremacy polemicist. In his prison writings, he cast himself as a hero in a coming race war with racial minorities and Jews. He drafted proposed bylaws and recruiting letters for his new Klan chapter and expounded on the Aryans, whom he considered to be a "race of individuals who have found themselves existing on humanity's evolutionary plateau," who were "born with...
...home, Tran insists he displayed the flag because it's his country's current symbol. Ho, he says, was a "hero" who helped liberate his people. And America is a liberated country, with real freedoms. "I wanted to show the Vietnamese community that freedom means accepting an opposite opinion." He doesn't quite disavow a quest for fame. "Wanting to be famous is just human nature," he says. "But that's not the main point for my actions." Then he asks, "When is my story running...
Testosterone. Machismo. Muscles. Guns. Sweat. Real Men. Let that Y chromosome take over for a few hours as you watch John Wayne play one of his most unforgettable characters, the hero Ringo Kid in the 1939 film Stagecoach. South Boston Library 646 E. Broadway. 268-0180. p.m. FREE...
Junior forward Trevor Allman, the hero of last Saturday's win at Cornell with two goals, appeared destined for such honors again...
More than one potential hero has been crushed by the crowd of pretenders to the throne. They get shoved aside in political primaries, dumped in the circular file at the offices of various publication, passed up for professorships and passed over for jobs. And the "heroes" who do make it, or at least the pretenders to that title, have been installed as our role models--at the expense of people who excel primarily at softening that ground. Our professors are leaders in their fields first, teachers of their craft second. The Kennedy School itself is staffed almost entirely...