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...unfair to dismiss his country as a failed state so soon. "There is no civil war or bombs bursting on the streets," he says. "These are just growing pains of a young country." His main rival, Fernando de Araujo, leader of the democratic party and, like Gusmao , a resistance hero, disagrees. "We are a new country, but we are not a new society," he says. "Our people can see with their own eyes what has happened. It has been five years and what is there to show for it? Almost nothing...
...when it came in the form of a letter sent by Fabbri in 1899 praising "the aristocratic and austere" beauty of Cézanne's painting, was treated as a distraction. Cézanne refused to see his fan, and neither Fabbri nor Loeser ever got to meet their hero...
...said. Farmer, also a winner of the MacArthur ‘genius’ award, joins the ranks of Wendy Kopp, who founded Teach For America as a senior at Princeton and who won the two-year-old award last February. “Dr. Paul Farmer, is a hero here,” said Pete DeLisle, director of Austin College’s Posey Leadership Institute, which partners with the college to deliver the award, “we’re very proud to be associated with him.” Farmer was travelling to receive the prize...
...exciting reason to join." Emphasizing this glamorous appeal, the LAPD’s recruiting video presents a day in the life of a cop: Catching robbers, rescuing hostages, and taking on gun-toting kidnappers with air support and a SWAT team. Do we really want cops playing out action-hero fantasies...
...colonel whose rescue of 70 wounded during the Battle at Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam was depicted in the 2002 film We Were Soldiers; the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor; in a White House ceremony in which President George W. Bush hailed him as a hero; in Washington. Over a 14-hour period on Nov. 14, 1965, he piloted 22 flights, mostly under enemy fire, saying later that leaving the scene was "never a consideration ... They were my people down there, and they trusted in me to come and get them...