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Harvard had been held scoreless for its second match in a row and desperately needed to end the stalemate—in other words, the Crimson needed a hero...
...four main characters (there are just seven speaking roles in the picture) are known only by the names of cities they come from or hope to get to. They also represent four types familiar from other genres. Columbus, for example, is your standard teen-nerd hero. Played by Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) with a confidence that proves Michael Cera does not have a copyright on bright, inward, fretful, sexually underemployed young men, Columbus locks himself in his room, safe from all contact, human and other. So the sudden, desperate door-banging of the hot chick from...
...weekend before Lehman Brothers' collapse, Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain turned to Lewis for help. Thain called Lewis to offer him 10% of his firm. Lewis said he wanted it all. By the end of the weekend, the deal was done. Lewis was hailed as a hero for saving Merrill on the same morning that Lehman was forced to file for bankruptcy. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...easy to imagine that a little boy growing up in Paktia province might have heard heroic tales of the Battle of Jaji and its hero, bin Laden. When Zazi was about 7 years old, his father moved the family across the border into Pakistan, near Peshawar, another zone of bin Laden influence and a hotbed of jihadist activity...
...protection." If an accord actually gets inked in Honduras, Brazil's image as a regional power broker will take off. And if not, Lula at least will win points with the leftist base of his Workers Party. "Even if it doesn't work out he is still the hero of a noble cause [to] the Latin American left," says Rubens Ricupero, once a top Brazilian diplomat and Lula political rival...