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Post by dead0baby0chick on Oct 10, 2008 10:33:13 GMT -5
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Post by long on Oct 10, 2008 11:56:36 GMT -5
Living: Hillary - UHC
Dead: Tolstoy - Greatest artist of all time, lover of mankind
Gut reactions.
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Post by TeeHee on Oct 10, 2008 17:33:24 GMT -5
Terrylene Sacchetti, though she goes mainly by just her first name Terrylene professionally. She's passionate and inspiring, radiating such a warm positive energy about her. www.imdb.com/name/nm0856105/I was bordering on tears upon watching her in this video, her story and message so powerful.
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Post by alphamikefoxtrot on Oct 11, 2008 1:02:50 GMT -5
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Post by dead0baby0chick on Oct 11, 2008 1:38:30 GMT -5
^I would probably laugh were I not such a diehard Ginsburgian.
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Post by straylight on Oct 11, 2008 2:36:17 GMT -5
Martin Luther King Jr.. followed by..
Jack Skellington in a Nightmare Before Christmas ;D
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Post by betahat on Oct 12, 2008 2:17:03 GMT -5
Bruce Lee among EAs, among politicians I would say Tommy Douglas and Lester B Pearson, and among academics I would say Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, John Maynard Keynes and Bertrand Russell.
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Post by straylight on Oct 12, 2008 2:53:58 GMT -5
I forgot to mention Muhammad Ali.
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize!
Inventor of the rope-a-dope, along with the floating like a butterfly strategy (which even Bruce Lee modeled after), and the cockiest, most poetic bastard to ever enter sports. Someone who said he was the greatest and actually was.
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Post by LaFace on Oct 12, 2008 3:31:35 GMT -5
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Post by betahat on Oct 13, 2008 19:51:05 GMT -5
Yay, one of my heroes, Paul Krugman, just won a Nobel Prize. Come to think of it, many of them already have (Stiglitz, Russell, and Pearson) and Keynes would have won if he were alive in time for the invention of the economics Nobel, which I will admit is the crappiest of all the Nobels (and not really a Nobel in the end). Though how a Nobel compares to a titty empire, well, that's a question for a higher authority.
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Post by halfbreed on Oct 13, 2008 23:06:10 GMT -5
Mike Shinoda.
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Post by LaFace on Oct 14, 2008 21:38:14 GMT -5
Yay, one of my heroes, Paul Krugman, just won a Nobel Prize. Come to think of it, many of them already have (Stiglitz, Russell, and Pearson) and Keynes would have won if he were alive in time for the invention of the economics Nobel, which I will admit is the crappiest of all the Nobels (and not really a Nobel in the end). Though how a Nobel compares to a titty empire, well, that's a question for a higher authority. ^I wasn't being serious in my last post
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cm
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Post by cm on Oct 15, 2008 1:48:45 GMT -5
Oh my god, finally somebody with a hero who isn't a celebrity whose accomplishment is 'looking good'. Mine is very unconventional. It has nothing to do with his policies but everything to do with how he grew up in a poor family and got all the way to the top with many odds against him. Bill Clinton is another hero
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Post by straylight on Oct 15, 2008 3:09:42 GMT -5
How were my choices of Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, or Jack Skellington about looking good? One stuck up and died for people being shoved to the back of buses for their skin color, one invented the rope-a-dope (which, if anything, is a strategy to completely look like crap), and the other is a master of fright, and a demon of light, and will scare you right out of your pants.
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Post by courvoisier on Oct 15, 2008 12:16:48 GMT -5
Private David Fagan (U.S. 24th Infantry Regiment) who fought in the Philippine-American war 1899-1902. He was an African-American soldier, who believed the war he was fighting in was unjust for many reasons.
He deserted his regiment to the side of the Filipino revolutionary army. He became a fearsome guerilla fighter in combat and was promoted to an officer in the revolutionary army.
His fate is unclear. After the US army put a bounty on his head, a hunter is said to have brought his severed head to US officers. Some say the head was not his. Others say he was safely hidden in the deep forest, where he lived with his filipina wife and children.
Does anyone know if a commemoration/monument in the Philippines exist of him?
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