He was destined, he believed, to write a new poetry fit for forward-looking times: an age of streetcars, jazz and heroic engineering.

ECONOMIST: Lives (7): American poets

Equally, there have been times when real outsiders mocked the legal system and managed to look heroic.

ECONOMIST: The last outsider

For months afterward he was at Ground Zero several times a day--every day--guiding and overseeing the heroic rescue and cleanup efforts.

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