In their own extensive analysis of what makes a hero, psychologists Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo suggest that people who don't succumb to the bystander effect are sometimes people who generally don't adhere to social norms and conventions.
In a chaotic final couple of laps, Heidfeld jumped from eighth to third place on the track with what he called a "hero or zero decision" to come in for wet-weather tyres with two laps to go.
Wendy Wrightson described him as "a good man who lost his life far too soon, but lost it a hero doing what he did best".
But what is turning him into a conservative hero is his determination to make his campaign a national, not just a Californian, one.
The opening words from Cyrus to his new empire are very much what would have been expected of a conquering hero.
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Laura Clancy, chief of staff at charter-school nonprofit Achievement First, has seen her share of business refugees looking for what they think will be a soft landing or a hero's welcome doing philanthropic work.
He will be in position to be a hero, but you have to remember what he did at the company during his prior seven years there: he created the problem in the first place.
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What else would explain why McDonald's has turned to a military hero to help it navigate the messy trenches of the burger wars?
And contrary to what Mr. MacAskill may have imagined, those who gave Megrahi a hero's welcome saw only weakness in the minister's decision.
For better and worse, this flawed but touching hero is a man of action, revealing himself through what he does rather what he says.
Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a jaw like a stone jetty, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraqi war hero, work together at what is surely the worst job in the armed forces: telling parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed in Iraq.
What we see from these examples of contemporary Chinese heroes is a new kind of Chinese hero-worship in the context of regional and international competition.
Hero was founded by him and his three brothers as a trader of bicycle parts in what is now Pakistan.
What they have in common is a North East footballer, turned agent, who in their eyes went from hero to zero.
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