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...truest form of self-sacrificing??heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust; but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what to do. Librescu became a doomed but beautiful guardian angel to the students who are alive because of his heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: May 14, 2007 | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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