But it was on that day, when a lesser man would have compromised, that he showed his mettle.

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Though wounded, shot and bleeding, a lesser man might have said, "I'm lucky, " and sped away when your comrades have fallen.

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The best example of this in my own career was a very wise man named Joseph Lesser who hired me straight out of law school.

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The upcoming trio of films is a far cry from recent years when movies such as "Iron Man" and "Green Lantern" took a chance by introducing lesser-known superheroes on the big screen with very different results.

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Because they've always disliked Mr. Blagojevich, a man who owes his career partly to family connections and partly to being the lesser of two evils.

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