In recent New Yorker articles Mr. Klein has described John McCain as "a wildly unique human specimen," a populist distinguished by "great courage," "high-wire imprudence" and "a distressing solipsism," and in "The Running Mate," he gives his hero, Charlie Martin, many of the Arizona Senator's outward attributes, without ever capturing his complexity or contradictions.
She has received journalism's top honors for her reporting and has a distinguished reputation of bravery and courage.
Dana Mead, chairman of the MIT Corporation MITT's board of trustees), praised Vest for a distinguished presidency marked by "vision, courage, integrity and an extraordinary sense of service to MIT and to the nation.
Molinsky: I wanted to try to figure out what distinguished people who were successful and were able to get that courage, to take the leap, from people who weren't.
In addition to his long record of public service and his distinguished career as a litigator and corporate lawyer, Justin had indomitable spirit and courage, great good humor, profound love of family, friends, the law, life and Martha's Vineyard.
"Exceptional ability, fertile imagination and the courage to go against received opinion and to bear sometimes vicious attacks marked his distinguished career and explain his enormous contributions to the social sciences.
Some 65 years later, the medal symbolising the courage of Cpl Ram has become embroiled in allegations of conduct of a somewhat less distinguished nature which have put his military honour at the heart of an international dispute involving the Indian government, Scotland Yard, an eminent Mayfair auction house and the dead hero's 78-year-old widow.
But the courage of Williams and the other four officers inspired other survivors of the Second, who achieved a distinguished combat record in 11 engagements.
To Webb, himself once a distinguished member of the Marine Corps, military service was not just a patriotic gesture but part of a test of honor and courage, an essential rite of passage.
