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Almodovar is probably the last person I'd think of as a hero. The mediocre quality of the films he makes on taxpayers' money is exceeded only by his third-class café Bolshevik political comments. He is definitely not my idea of a hero. Peter Schmidt Madrid...
...Amsterdam television station at5 conducted a poll about Job Cohen. Only 40% agreed that he was a hero - 60% disagreed. Maybe the real hero in the days after Theo van Gogh was killed was Cohen's ally, Alderman Ahmed Aboutaleb. Bert Knol Amsterdam...
What a mistake to pick Lars Josefsson, managing director of the Swedish power company Vattenfall, as a hero of the environment! Now you have really lost your credibility! Even if it's very clean in Sweden, Vattenfall operates some of Europe's dirtiest power plants, in Poland and Germany. How can your magazine be so poorly informed? Charlotte Thege Sweden...
...novel lingers in your mind, such skepticism will be washed away next Friday, Oct. 28, when Hollinghurst reads from “The Line” at the Brattle Theatre at 6 p.m. The novel carries readers through 1980s London, a period which—for narrator-hero Nick Guest—is cataclysmic on two fronts: first, as a young and privileged Englishman in the dizzying boom-and bust-climate of Thatcherism; second, as a gay man at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could easily overpower a less skillful writer...
...London's most trafficked public spaces, near monuments to the likes of Lord Nelson and King George IV. Sketching the statue for a class, Nisharee Pongpaew, 20, an art student from Brighton, registers her disapproval. "Around her are all these important people," says Pongpaew. "She's not a hero...