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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).
Conservatives lionized him as a pioneer of conservatism before his time.
Meanwhile, Robert D. Kaplan has lionized Kissinger in this month's Atlantic.
The movie of The Right Stuff , which lionized Glenn, opened just before primary season.
Manson is lionized for speaking the "truths" that no one wants to hear: that Christianity is false, that conventional morality is stifling, and so on.