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Since the Littleton shootings, Rosa had thought about what he would do if something similar happened at his school. "I thought I'd be a hero--tackle the gunman and wrestle him down," he said. In the event, though, "what I did was run." Rosa was still wondering whether T.J. was using a cap gun when he felt a sting in his leg. He joined the fleeing crowd, ending up in a science lab with other students for several very long minutes...
...High School. The calamity, its emotional impact reinforced last week by the shooting in Conyers, Ga., has also transfixed her school's Campus Life faith group, led by her older brother Devon. As a result, Susan has reached a personal decision, one based on the example of her new hero, a Christian victim of the Colorado massacre named Cassie Bernall. "If there was a shooter in my school," declares the 12-year-old gravely, "I'd volunteer to sacrifice my life. I'd say, 'Don't shoot my friends; shoot me,' because I know where I'll go when...
...following ways: both were written by the gifted comedy writer Richard Curtis; both star fabulously inaccessible (to Grant) American women--in this case Julia Roberts; both feature appealing groups of friends in varying states of lovelornness; and both allow Grant to be the most lovelorn of all, a romantic hero in the deer-in-headlights mode that made him so popular in the first place. As Four Weddings director Mike Newell puts it, "Everyone wants Hugh to be the charming, beautiful, bumbling guy they know from Four Weddings." And on that, Notting Hill delivers...
Sure, the tax code favors those who hold 'em. And America has made a hero of Warren Buffett, in part because he had a predilection to own, not trade, during a phenomenal period to be long stocks. But where is it written that holding for eons makes you a sage and owning for a few minutes makes you a fool...
...Freehold, N.J., Mayor Michael Wilson proposed erecting a statue of hometown hero BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. But plans for the memorial were scrapped last week when the cost became prohibitive. Mayor Wilson revealed that public support was only tepid to begin with...