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The catcher has the least glamorous, most difficult, and most self-sacrificing job in the game.
Should it turn out that Gore, as the son of a senator, had a kind of safe-conduct pass through the war zone, it would call into doubt just how courageous and self-sacrificing his decision to volunteer was.
Citing the long record of the president's "boldness and mendacity"--not just the Lewinsky case but the Travel Office and FBI file coverups, etc.--Helprin compares the fibbing Clinton to the model of the self-sacrificing statesman: "As others move in the light, he will move in the darkness, so that as others move in darkness, he may move in the light.
In popular culture, literature, and the cinema, soldaderas have been portrayed as self-sacrificing women, usually mestizas (mixed-race women) from the lower classes, but La Adelita is often seen as a güera (light-skinned), “sweetheart of the troops, a woman who is valiant, pretty, and a wonderful helpmate to the soldier” (Salas 121).
Where do these heroically self-sacrificing prostitutes come from?