His decision last week to re-examine 400 convictions after DNA evidence cleared a man erroneously jailed for nearly 16 years has pushed him into the public eye again and into the vanguard of prosecutors in seeking retroactive justice.
A teacher by training, Mr. Mbeki was a soldier in spirit, and soon abandoned schools for politics, writing and organizing his way into the vanguard of the liberation struggle and eventually into prison, where he spent 23 years, many of them alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sissulu and other leading enemies of the apartheid regime.
Nevertheless, by 18 November, the 2/2nd Infantry Battalion had led the brigade into Popondetta, after which the 2/3rd moved into the vanguard.
Most of these programs are on the West Coast; thus, it is all the more remarkable that New York City is stepping into the vanguard of organic waste separation.
More broadly, it seeks to slip Suffolk County gently into the vanguard of what could become a new, or at least re-energized, environmental movement in the suburbs.
Their work is being encouraged, and sponsored, by a new generation of chefs who have pushed Southern cooking into the vanguard of world cuisine — and who depend on these small producers to literally flesh out their ambitions.
Then Mr Bouteflika's skilful diplomacy propelled Algeria into the vanguard of the non-aligned movement, where he rubbed shoulders with leaders such as Josip Broz Tito and Indira Gandhi.
It vaulted Mr. Abrams, a creator of television shows like "Lost" and "Alias," into the vanguard of directors who could successfully run the summer movie spectacles that are the lifeblood of Hollywood studios.
Despite their differences in political orientation, the two parties' presidential candidates, both of whom were born into the vanguard of the boomer generation, are delivering the same message on the campaign trail: "responsibility".
