This is not to say that Chen Guangcheng is not a hero.
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Such robust cynicism about Wall Street, along with his links to the current president, may explain why Mr Volcker is not a hero of the conservative movement, despite his anti-inflationary credentials.
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Mr. Arafat knows that a Palestinian leader who makes peace with Israel on terms that leave Israel a secure nation, recognized and living in peace with the Arab world, will not be a hero in his own land, and may not even have long to live.
Correa began to back off from his authoritarian policies, not like a hero but very much like a coward.
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If they made the unfortunate decision to do something differently, we did not want -- we wanted at all costs to avoid the pain that would obviously be caused by a celebration or some sort of welcome befitting a hero, not a terrorist and a murderer, in Libya.
The point and, after three installments, it seems a fatal one is that the two halves of our hero form not a beguiling contrast but a dreary, perfect match.
Police Chief Cathy Lanier and others have hailed Johnson as a hero, WJLA reported the 46-year-old told the station in a telephone interview that he was simply doing his job and is not comfortable being described as a hero.
Like Aaron Boone, Fisk was certainly a hero of sorts, but not THE hero.
No, Bane is not an avatar for OWS. Bruce Wayne is not a small-government hero come to ward off the squalid, criminal masses.
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Josef Trumpeldor is not remembered as a great hero for having said, "It is good to die for strategically significant hilltops, " - although that is what he died defending.
Given that they think The Great Gatsby is a tale of social mobility and not one of a self-created hero, these two economists seem to think our inequality is the root of all evil, that no one can move in society because the rungs of the ladder are too far apart, so to speak.
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At least early in the game, we get a sense that our hero is not some immortal soldier for a change.
That sort of staged launch is "not too uncommon for a non-hero device, " Mr. Heiner said.
The Soviet Union claimed a hero it did not own when, in 1958, it awarded him a Lenin Prize for Peace.
But being a war hero does not prevent you being depicted as an elitist lefty, as George McGovern discovered in 1972.
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Although Gogol writes that "we have not taken a virtuous man as our hero, " he has made Chichikov, though vile and petty in so many ways, oddly sympathetic.
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Spider-Man is not the best first outing for a hero, that honour still belongs to the man from Kryton, Superman, but Spidey could be crawling to a close second.
The Obama camp is busy branding him as a Dole a great man and a war hero, to be sure, but not the right person to lead the country into a bright new tomorrow.
We do not want to encourage anyone to be a hero, championing potentially hopeless causes and angering those around them, without being fully aware of the dangers.
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But what is turning him into a conservative hero is his determination to make his campaign a national, not just a Californian, one.
"My Architect" is reality -- a moving, bittersweet and marvelously touching film about an anti-hero who loved not wisely but too well, and generally made a mess of it, but left a brilliant body of magnificent work and a son who found himself, and his father, through it.
But unlike most, I am convinced that the hero Liang did not die of a broken heart because his lover Zhu was forced to marry another man.
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This one gaffe will not have everybody thinking that this war hero is a warmonger.
Computerized speech dictation will not make a doer out of a procrastinator or a hero out of a coward.
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