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People say that he can't do it, that, as a fellow sports writer remarked, "he'll be wheezing on the ice." It is a well-known fact that greatness never fades, and no better word fits Lemieux.
Lennon's admirers accept those faults, just as Martin Luther King's personal failings are put in perspective by the greatness of his achievements. We know that heroes are flawed. And we are sad for those they hurt. However, those weaknesses don't diminish the overall achievements. They are simply...
Of all Lennon's legacies, one of the most enduring, and perhaps the most impressive, is who his enemies were. The true measure of his greatness was that in the 1970s he terrified the most powerful man in the world.
Best Comic(s) of 2000 - a tie: "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," by Chris Ware "Safe Area Gorazde," by Joe Sacco These two very different books are both examples of striving for greatness in the comics genre. "Jimmy Corrigan" uses the fictional story of a not-so-bright, aging...
As with Elvis, Marcus says, Clinton appeals to the extreme ways in which we can see ourselves, the levels of greatness and deviance that we ordinaries may never reach. We feel the need to see ourself in their relief, Marcus writes, "to prove that if we will never rise so...