Word: gallant
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...TIME's cover headline referring to President George W. Bush as "The Lone Ranger" [Nov. 6] was like calling Donald Rumsfeld Mahatma Gandhi. Don't you know your pop-culture history? The Lone Ranger was a gallant man who helped people in distress. He then rode away, not waiting for accolades. The only thing Bush has in common with the Lone Ranger is that he is from Texas. R. Lee Lawrence Los Angeles...
...time's cover headline referring to President George W. Bush as "The Lone Ranger" [Nov. 6] was like calling Donald Rumsfeld Mahatma Gandhi. Don't you know your pop-culture history? The Lone Ranger was a gallant man who helped people in distress. He then rode away, not waiting for accolades. The only thing Bush has in common with the Lone Ranger is that he is from Texas. R. Lee Lawrence Los Angeles I could accept that President Bush is, as you put it on the cover, "faltering in Iraq," "out of favor with his own party" and "increasingly isolated...
...reason and faith” as a general education requirement was a bold decision, and the Task Force’s commitment to innovation should be commended. But Harvard’s desire to follow in the footsteps of past curricular reviews by assuming the role of the gallant knight crusading into uncharted territory has gone too far. The Faculty should replace “reason and faith” with something more sensible...
...other big difference between Invincible and Rocky is that the former purports to be a "true" story, while the latter was only suggested by the real-life career of a gallant, possibly misguided, pug known to the sports pages as "the Bayonne Bleeder." There really was (and is) a guy named Vince Papale, and he really did make the team in 1976, at age 30, having played just one year of high school football, plus a lot of pickup games in empty lots. He is impersonated here, quite appealingly, by Mark Wahlberg. There also really was (and is) a football...
...Even so, as former Confederate president Davis, now Union prisoner, recalled in his memoirs, one thought did bring him solace: "the Confederate flag no long floated on the land; but one gallant sailor still unfurled it on the Pacific"-"Captain [James I.] Waddell, commanding the Shenandoah cruiser...