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...classic tale, told and retold through the ages: the hero reaches for greatness but fails, finds wisdom and maturity in scarred exile, then comes home to save his dying kingdom in Act III. Watching Steve Jobs hold his gorgeous new iBook triumphantly aloft before his assembled legions at last week's MacWorld convention in New York City, it was easy to imagine Apple Computer's interim-CEO-for-life perched somewhere in the pantheon between Odysseus and Simba the Lion King...
Edward Moore Kennedy 1932-present His generation's great survivor. Twice-married liberal hero is father to a Congressman...
...human endurance. Every summer more than 10 million fans line the roadsides--and millions more tune in on TV--to watch the riders sprint, climb and sweat their way through every variety of French landscape. The race finishes on the Champs Elysees in Paris, where the winner gets a hero's welcome...
...sense, Lance Armstrong started the race a hero. In 1996 the Texas-born cyclist was found to be suffering from testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs. The prognosis could not have been grimmer. But by the time the dust settled on the 13th leg of the Tour de France last Saturday, 27-year-old Armstrong had run up a nearly 8-min. lead on his closest competitor, a big cushion in this 20-stage race. And if his lead holds, Armstrong's achievement will be all the more remarkable. "The Tour de France is like running...
...Rothenberg, chairman of the Women's World Cup board and past president of U.S. Soccer. "We might have 2,000 to 3,000 people at those early barnstorming games," he says, in Hershey, Pa., and in New York's Long Island. Wherever the team went in those days, the hero that girls sought out was Hamm, now 27, whose speed and finesse still give defenders the shakes. As the team's best known player--a distaff version of Michael Jordan--she had the burden of not only scoring goals but also being Miss Publicity. A self-described emotional child from...