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Versatility is usually not the first skill for a college baseball player to boast about.However, junior Dan Zailskas has proven that his flexibility to play just about anywhere on the field is one of his most important contributions to the team.“[Zailskas] is the guy that we...

Author: By Katie Kuzma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All-Purpose Junior Impresses Early in Season | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

None of this is to say that all cockiness leads to ruin - sometimes it's what's needed for a leader seeking greatness. During his brief presidency, John F. Kennedy had the preposterous idea that the CIA could topple the government of Cuba and the equally foolish notion that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Powerful People Overestimate Themselves | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

Yet amid the splatter of crushed limbs, the chatter of Strangelovean science fiction and the sludge of traditional romance--and despite way too much tone-deaf acting--Watchmen has splashes of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen: Hero Worship | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Maybe there's no way the rest of the film could match this opening, and for sure it doesn't. Snyder spends much of the movie's 2 hours and 40 minutes on the splatter of crushed limbs, the chatter of Strangelovean science fiction and the nattering of the obligatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen Review: (A Few) Moments of Greatness | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

Beginning in his early days in boarding school, the young Roosevelt maintained a constant correspondence with his mother Sara Roosevelt. Sara—who according to Weishan predicted that Roosevelt was destined for greatness as a child—saved everything from his baby shoes to locks of his hair...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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