EDITORIAL : THUMBS UP.(Editorial)(Editorial)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 14, 1999 ;     93 words ...WHO says there are no heroes anymore? Victor Ruelas is living proof that they exist right here in the San Fernando Valley. Ruelas, a kitchen worker at the North Valley...

Playing the naming-rights game.(What They're Saying)(Brief Article)

Curriculum Review;  February 1, 2005 ;     137 words ......fuddy-duddy idea that schools should be named after civic heroes whom you'd want students to study and emulate. Who believes in heroes anymore? Civic values? Pfft. They don't help the bottom line, the district's or the nation's. What this economy needs are pliant...

No More Heroes Anymore

Male View;  June 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ...No More HEROES Anymore WHO would be a young man today in 1997? Personally, I wouldn't swap 20 years off my age to be one of them right now! Things are...

Silencing Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Washington Post;  October 13, 1995 ;     307 words ......echoes the opinions of the Russian powers that be: namely, that "Russia is no longer a disaster" and that it "does not need heroes anymore." Mr. Hoffman believes that the recent decision of the Russian governmental TV to scrap Mr. Solzhenitsyn's talk show "speaks...

Vent line

Charleston Daily Mail;  September 14, 2006 ;     479 words ......Is it just me or did all the Marshall fans get quiet all of a sudden? * Jessica Lynch is not a war hero. There are no war heroes anymore. * To the person who called the Vent Line complaining about the drug representatives: I have seen the reps wait their turn...

MOUNTAIN RESCUER IS A HERO TO US RESCUER IS A HERO TO US

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle;  June 2, 1998 ;     492 words ......famous scoffing at being role models, heroes like those of yesteryear may be becoming an endangered species. "There ain't no heroes anymore," like one calloused fan said the other day, "not since Patrick Henry or Rudy York." Bob Boice, who grew up on a ranch north...

Ted Williams definitely was an American hero

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  July 14, 2002 ;     218 words ...Americans don't have many heroes anymore, so when one leaves us, we are always saddened. Ted Williams, the greatest hitter in major league baseball, has left us. The last...

(book review)

Esquire;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...With his new novel, Saul Bellow proves that he still dominates I DON'T HAVE TOO MANY LITERARY heroes anymore--I could count the living ones on the fingers of one hand--so when an editor friend asked me to do an interview with Saul Bellow...

'Big Dog' just latest star to let us down

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 23, 2002 ;     612 words ......EUGENE KANE of the Journal Sentinel staff Tuesday, July 23, 2002 It's sad, but we really don't expect much from our sports heroes anymore. Not with all the athletes showing up on police blotters accused of abusing women. After all, most sports fans have beloved...

In Tune With His Country

The Washington Post;  December 8, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Who says there are no heroes anymore? Marvin Leath, a six-term congressman from Texas, is a hero. He became my hero last week when he announced he wouldn't be seeking...

No more heroes anymore?; Whatever happened to... statesmen and spiritual...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  October 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Rhodri Evans LEADING Welsh artist Andrew Vicari has attacked the number of sportsmen and singers in the internet poll of 100 Welsh Heroes. Currently, singer Tom Jones tops the poll with almost three times as many votes as second-placed Owain Glyndwr - and 10 of the top 20 heroes are drawn

NO MORE HEROES ANYMORE; Why JJ's son ruled out a rugby career.(News)

Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales);  February 3, 2002 ;     576 words ...THE son of Wales and Lions' legend JJ Williams has walked away from a rugby career because there are no heroes in the game today. The decision made by Rhys Williams, a member of the Wales Under-18 squad, is in direct contrast to the one his dad made three decades ago. Then wing wonder JJ, a 100 and

No more heroes anymore? Youth stumped by history.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  August 5, 2004 ;     633 words ...Byline: By RHODRI OWEN Western Mail A sizeable slice of British youth think Gandalf, Horatio Hornblower or Christopher Columbus was the hero of the English fleet's defeat of the Spanish Armada, a survey has shown. And the chances are that young people in Wales are even less familiar with the

The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., Rob Joesbury column: ?A wonderful kid...

News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN);  May 13, 2006 ;     634 words ...Byline: Rob Joesbury May 13--They say there are too few heroes anymore. This story has three. Two of them would dismiss that notion, if you asked them. The other? He died Thursday in Iraq. So first...

The pen is mightier than the actress.

Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);  August 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Barry Koltnow Who says that Hollywood doesn't turn out heroes anymore? True, there are no more John Waynes. There are no more Clark Gables. There are no more Steve McQueens. But there is still a James...