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...grenade, and the answer was that it was an act of self-preservation - "That's what all heroes are made of." I disagree that heroism is rooted in self-preservation. The soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his buddies or the citizen who pulls a stranger from a burning car knowingly reduces his chance of survival to increase that of another. It is the willingness to risk one's life for a noble purpose that should define an act of heroism, not the saving of somebody's life coincident with saving your own - and certainly...
...Nagin, no stranger to controversy, said he was just returning a favor by backing Jefferson. "He was one of the few elected officials that supported me during the mayor's race, and I told him that if he needed my support, I would reciprocate," Nagin said. The mayor insisted that Jefferson's experience and relationships in Congress would make him effective, even as the clouds of scandal grow darker. "I think that he will still be effective - more effective than somebody who's a rookie, absolutely," he said, adding, "Until he's indicted, I think we ought to presume...
...grenade, and the answer was that it was an act of self-preservation--"That's what all heroes are made of." I disagree that heroism is rooted in self-preservation. The soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his buddies and the citizen who pulls a stranger from a burning car knowingly reduce their chances of survival to increase those of another. It is the willingness to risk one's life for a noble purpose that should define an act of heroism, not the instinct for self-preservation...
...only helped a stranger with a broken leg, he said. But that stranger was John Wilkes Booth, on the run after assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Mudd was jailed for life for treason and for conspiring to assassinate the President but was pardoned...
...catchiest tune of the bunch, which is rather ironic considering that it is about drug overdoses. Yet the high-pitched female vocals, background piano, and the lyrics about young love—albeit in an illegal-substance-induced, together-in-the-hospital sort of way—disguise the stranger side of the love ’em and leave ’em experience...