Mr Johns's thesis is that Smedley's commercial failure was in fact a heroic moral success.

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But as South Africa waits to hear news, good or bad, about Nelson Mandela it is slowly coming to terms with the fact that its heroic years are over.

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Most available data would seem to indicate strongly that the problem of cyber insecurity is in fact getting worse, despite heroic, but ineffective efforts to the contrary.

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And even though there are heroic teachers and principals in many of these schools, the fact is that they need some extra help.

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They attribute that to the fact that they still find each other funny, and to a heroic work ethic.

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