21.   It honors an unlikely hero -- a Jewish polio victim from Brooklyn -- who shaped the pop charts like few other songwriters of his time.

22.   John P. Burke is an unlikely hero in the long-shot campaign against banks that seek to impose automated teller machine surcharges.

23.   Kurt remains an unlikely hero.

24.   Martin has become an unlikely hero to many Britons who feel that the criminal justice system has gone too far in penalizing victims rather than criminals.

25.   Mr. O is an unlikely hero.

26.   Outnumbered and outgunned, can these unlikely heroes save the day for law and order?

27.   Reviled, sniggered at and feared as obnoxious and even sorcerous, eunuchs would seem to make unlikely political heroes.

28.   Shambling along in handcuffs and leg chains, a look of bewilderment giving way to the occasional soft smirk, Theodore Kaczynski makes an unlikely hero.

29.   Still, for some in Washington, Torricelli emerged as an unlikely hero this week.

30.   Surviving a fierce battle with termites, Z becomes an unlikely hero, and soon finds himself leading a revolution against regimented conformity.