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But he was no ordinary hero of the revolution.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Richard Cohen Reminds the Left Why Castro Must Go
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He was admired partly because he was so ordinary, an accidental hero.
ECONOMIST: Alec Campbell
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Many ordinary Chinese see him as a hero for his campaign against criminal gangs.
ECONOMIST: Power games
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General Khobie had his flaws, but to most ordinary people there he was a hero, the man who protected their elected President.
BBC: Farewell to the general
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Four soldiers, rifles at rest, stood guard as ordinary New Zealanders said goodbye to a national hero, whose achievements are known around the world.
CNN: Final farewell for Edmund Hillary
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The plan had the backing of the French government, but it was financed mostly through public subscription, the personal savings of thousands of ordinary French people who regarded de Lesseps as a hero on a Napoleonic scale.
ECONOMIST: The Panama Canal
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The dispatcher, having started out as a klutz so ordinary that he wears a tie and a sleeveless sweater, morphs into an action hero, which is just one of a cluster of wild implausibilities that crowd out the cogency of the film.
NEWYORKER: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
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It's Mr Block's willingness to give his hero a bit of extra psychological depth to show that he's really just an ordinary Joe with problems of his own that makes his Matt Scudder books so satisfying.
ECONOMIST: Character is what makes these thrillers
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But when it focusses on its nominal hero and his love affair with a worldly German bohemian (played by Sheryl Lee) it seems very ordinary.
NEWYORKER: Backbeat