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...star into a savior? I suspect this has something to do with the frenzy of millennial predictions, spawned by the strike, of the death of baseball. None of these predictions have come true, of course, but nevertheless the attitude lingers that baseball is in deep trouble and needs the Herculean feats of McGwires and Ripkens to keep from teetering into oblivion. This is a myth. Suggesting that baseball needs saviors is to suggest it is in a worse state than it actually is, and only further perpetuates the myth...
...Prophets of doom warn that the economic damage will bring social unrest, as failed harvests bring food shortages and flood damage increases joblessness. The flooding certainly adds a cruel twist to Beijing's Herculean challenge of shifting to a market economy, rapidly and profoundly altering the way millions of people live and work. But there may be some consolation: The epic struggle against the flooding has drawn tens of millions of ordinary people away from their jobs and day-to-day concerns. Soldiers, farmers and city dwellers have thrown themselves into the battle to shore up dikes, save lives...
...following year, the group had been joined by McCartney and his school friend George Harrison, then just 14. In 1960, calling themselves the Silver Beatles, and with drummer Pete Best in tow, they sailed to Germany to play the riotous red-light-district bars of Hamburg, drink Herculean quantities of beer and gulp down handfuls of illicitly energizing pills to keep them stage ready seven nights a week...
...battle of giants. The Cold War heated the classroom as the Herculean minds of professors Michael Walzer and Robert Nozick dueled over the moral worth of socialism and capitalism. It was also where E.J. Dionne '73, now a syndicated columnist, learned that fighting over politics does not have to end in a nuclear meltdown...
...teaching fellows who are occasionally ill-equipped to answer questions. I have heard from my spies that students have at times come to section--and I know this will come as a shock--without having done every word of the assigned reading. In section, contrary to students, gallant, even Herculean attempts to disguise the fact, it is usually apparent to the TF who has done the reading...