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Junior forward Trevor Allman, the hero of last Saturday's win at Cornell with two goals, appeared destined for such honors again...
Perhaps what America needs, Cuomo suggested, is some kind of hero, a redemptive figure who would emerge onto the American scene and bring us the solutions that seem just outside our grasp. "Moses," he mused, "maybe if Moses came back...even Alan Simpson here wouldn't argue with Moses...
More than one potential hero has been crushed by the crowd of pretenders to the throne. They get shoved aside in political primaries, dumped in the circular file at the offices of various publication, passed up for professorships and passed over for jobs. And the "heroes" who do make it, or at least the pretenders to that title, have been installed as our role models--at the expense of people who excel primarily at softening that ground. Our professors are leaders in their fields first, teachers of their craft second. The Kennedy School itself is staffed almost entirely...
Cuomo said his theory is to replace theindividual hero with the heroic message,"something powerful enough to unite and uplift allof...
Then her husband decided to have an affair. Hillary, as she has throughout their marriage, stood stoically by her philandering mate. She went on TV to talk about vast conspiracies. When she could no longer deny the obvious, she went on TV to grimace somberly. Now, she is a hero. Now, she is being hailed as a political force in her own right. She should really just go back to Arkansas...