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Martina Hingis and Pete Sampras won the women's and men's tennis championships at Wimbledon . Sportswriters lionized Hingis as a Wunderkind (she's 16, the youngest Wimbledon champ in a century) and Sampras as arguably the greatest player ever (he's on track to shatter the record for men's grand slam titles).
The movie of The Right Stuff , which lionized Glenn, opened just before primary season.
After famously "taking responsibility" for the botched FBI raid in Waco in 1993, she was lionized for her refreshing readiness to be held accountable.
Meanwhile, Robert D. Kaplan has lionized Kissinger in this month's Atlantic.