Both have advantages and disadvantages, much as the broad, impersonal-forces approach to the past and the heroic, great-man theory of history each have theirs.
But that theory was quickly shot down in flames by a squadron of hacks keen to point out that Mr Zuma - a man of great personal charm who can also wow a crowd with his singing and dancing - is simply not much of a wordsmith and that no grander conclusions should be drawn.
Farrell's new coach at Saracens Alan Gaffney is also expecting great things of the two-time Man of Steel.
His mentor as a young man, a great avant-garde stage director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, was executed in 1940.
Honoring Steve, for me, means demanding Apple earn my money as hard in its post-Steve era as when the Great Man was still with us.
If country music has been saved from commercial Nashville's oily quiffs and bubblegum lyrics, it is thanks to a single-handed rescue operation by this great man.
Man-made technology is great, but Mother Nature is the greatest inventor of them all -- and scientists are discovering new ways to take advantage of the tools found in nature.
Deadpool is coming to consoles in 2013 from Activision, which has done a great job over the years with the Spider-Man games (both those based on the comics and those based on the films).
After reading a page on WeRelate.org about Daniel Boone, one of the most famous long hunters, Ms. Auvil says she found a wiki page link to a Kentucky state surveyor and friend of a brother of a Tennessee senator who was a friend of the man who adopted her fifth great-grandfather after his own father was murdered.
Jobs was a multi-disciplinary business man, and start-up kind of guy, whose company hired a great designer in Ive.
"Remember the sword of your great-grandfather Ali, " in reference to the man who is regarded by the Shiites as their historical religious authority.
He concedes people had a great affection for the small schools - but as the man in charge of the county budget some of the smallest were becoming in his eyes, unsustainable.
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Meanwhile, Esperance striker Ali Zitouni, who must have felt very lonely playing as the sole striker against a four-man Enyimba defence, also had a great chance to give his side the lead in the 10th minute during a rare foray upfield.
Bill Russell, the great Boston Celtics center and later coach, was a one-man leadership college.
He strove to present himself to the great American public as a church-going Episcopalian, a family man of Victorian rectitude.
Porco Rosso, a hard-bitten veteran, insists that all the good fliers died in the Great War and suspects that God transformed him into a pig-man to punish him for surviving it.
He was also a family man and my father, a grandfather and a great-grandfather.
Behind a deliberately stern exterior, he was also prone to occasional fits of usually Johnston-inspired giggles, finding, not uniquely, the great man's laugh irresistibly infectious.
"We made hard work of it, but it was great to get that win for the team, " said the man-of-the-match.
And I said it's very moving you would -- and I said you were shrewd as well as a great man.
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What this means is, even though this new series takes a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics, it is also looking back to those great past eras as well and lifting the best and most important elements, to remain faithful to the full 50 years of Spider-Man history (a 50-year anniversary that is official this August, by the way).
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His grandson spoke movingly of his "Papa", a man with a sweet-tooth, a quick tongue and great love of his family.
This was Andy Zaltzman, a great, tall man with an electrified Einstein hairdo and a cutting, political-satirical act that got its laughs per minute.
"He wouldn't have wanted a fuss", said Mr Fielding's great-grandson Bob Couzens who said his ancestor was a "quiet and unassuming man" who "didn't seek attention".
Buffett was a well-educated young man whose father was a Congressman, and he spent a great deal of time in Washington D.
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There were further claims from the families of a man whose ribs were broken while hospital staff tried to lift him and a great-grandmother whose hip fracture went undetected by doctors.
Pablo and Anselmo knew how good they were and while Pablo stood now proud and less sad-looking, watching them lovingly, the old man acted as though they were some great surprise that he had produced, suddenly, himself.
The man himself was a jet-setting playboy who rarely met the David Ogilvy standards of a great leader.
Mr Moran said the words were reminiscent of the early sections of Neruda's great 1945 poem Heights of Macchu Picchu, which contrasts the "spontaneous and ceaseless self-renewal of Nature with Man's impermanence".
"Given that these are two hugely high-profile companies with a great deal of money, they will dig deep to try and be the last man standing, " said Roy Greenslade, professor of journalism at City University in London, in published reports.
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