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the funny thing about New Year's resolutions...

If this baseball's offseason has taught us anything, it's that you don't necessarily need to be good to be paid well.

Essayist examines how modern conveniences result in a generation of apathetic people who refuse to work to achieve their dreams

Mastery in one's career and consciousness growth simply requires that we constantly produce results beyond and out of the ordinary.

It has gotten to the point that most people cant or wont say what is on their mind, for fear of offending a person or group of people.

The good outweighs the bad, in my opinion. The eight bucks or so that you'll spend for this album is worth it, simply because of a few great songs

The institution of Higher Level Thinking Skills in education has created an environment in which mastery is lost and mediocrity prevails. Teaching middle school math for 8 years, after military retirement, revealed the sad state of affairs in our schools today.

Volume writers are a dime a dozen. It is the writer that choose substance over volume that will ultimately be rewarded.

If you're like a lot of other Soprano's fans, you were upset when the very basic Sopranos season finale ended in complete mediocrity. Everything seemed like the same ol', same ol' in Sopranoland. Not so, my friends. Tony Soprano was killed in the final scene.

Having become even more ubiquitous than Vietnamese-owned nail salons, Starbuck's Coffee shops have blanketed the landscape with their mediocre products and airport-like faux living rooms.

Scarborough Fair in Sea Girt, New Jersey, likes to brag about its "storybook setting" with multilevel seating and an outdoor patio, probably because this is pretty much all the restaurant has going for it. The food is mediocre, as is the service.

I am not fully satisfied with the Zyliss Classic Cheese Grater. This is certainly better than my previous metallic grater but then mediocrity is not something that I expected from reputed brand like Zyliss.

Once thought to be a contender for the title of American Idol, Jason Castro continues his slide into mediocrity during Neil Diamond night.

Editorial view on the lack of good television today in America.

Review of the horror movie, Dead Silence (2007)

An overview of business reasons to implement work from home, or Remote, positions in all businesses.

In the Name of the King is the latest in a string of sword and sorcery epics that have been green lit based on the success of far better movies like The Lord of the Rings and Narnia. It's also based on a computer game, so be warned.

If you expect that the 7th season of American Idol will be any different than previous seasons, you are in need of some professional help!

Mariah's best album in the last 7 years. Period.

For the Buffalo Bills, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Following last season's embarrassing 5-11 season, Bills owner Ralph Wilson apologized to fans and brought back former head coach, Marv Levy to lead them back to mediocrity.

Why aren't more good movies shown on TV? Why does it seem as if the same ten movies are every channel every month? Could it be part of a conspiracy to lower expectations so that mediocrity is seen as brilliance?

Rising out of the mire of mediocrity is no easy business; but hip-hop diva Kherish has managed to do it.

Light bills itself as "a quarterly of light verse," and while the material definitely leans toward the side of levity, many of the poems display a keen sophistication.

Madame Bovary resists the bourgeoise, small-town folk in their lifestyles and mediocrity. She seems to desire too much from her life and the people around her, but her refusal to "be like them" in the face of death, proves her heroism.

The National League West has been very competitive for the past couple of years although at times it's been competitive for it's mediocrity but this year I think it will be competitive because there are four good looking teams in this division.

Perhaps America's most well-known gangster, Al Capone had to grow out of his shell of mediocrity while growing up. His humble upbringing transformed him into a benefactor as well as a murderer and and decorated criminal.

A short essay on the mediocrity of the overly-praised Little Miss Sunshine

In the television industry, the term "jump the shark" was conceived in the late 1970's. It is defined as the moment when a hit television series takes that almost inevitable turn from greatness to mediocrity or worse.

I suppose as long as I recognize that I need improvement, I'm not settling for mediocrity.

Laws are being passed all the time without the public's knowledge. Sometimes the laws are small an inconsequential, and sometimes their consequences are huge and affect our very way of being.

Video games never seem to make good movies. But why? The data is all there, the inspiration is there, the coolness is there. Why do they come so short?

We Indians might be good at talking nonsense at length, but when it comes to making arguments on basis of reason and logic, we fail abysmally.

San Sebastian is a city known for its wonderful cuisine, but the best places are not the ones you might expect. Contrary to popular belief, the best food is neither at the expensive three star restaurants, nor at the ubiquitous tapas bars.

Troy was a movie that managed to sneak by most sensors late last year. Heavily based upon Homer's The Illiad, this movie's main draw is the war between the Trojans and the Greeks.

The desires of the characters in George Moore's The Untilled Field are revealed through their dreams. A unified need is displayed to create a new Ireland for a kind of nationalistic nourishment of the soul.

Sometimes the most simplistic video games in concept become the ones with the most longevity. Zoo Keeper is a puzzle game with a straightforward concept: line up three animals in a row to clear them from the board.

The call for accountability in the educational system has led to the application of standardized testing to determine the assessment of students in the middle school setting.

The utterance of 'judgment' hs the ability of interpolating the moral paralysis that pervades in all of teh short stories of which Dubliners is comprised, in addition to making reference to the capacity of the reader.

It's small, but Montpelier, Vermont has enough bookstores to satisfy the most fanatic bibliophile.

A review of Woody Allen's latest effort at making pseudo-intellects feel important and film lovers feel suicidal. Short answer: full success!

There are no limitations, no quantification to how much I care in regard to the Armenian Genocide and massacres committed by the Young Turk Government and Ottoman Empire in 1915.

I saw a movie the other day that made my heart sprout wings and float right out of the movie theater.

Is John Legend the next R&B superstar, or is he a product of hype from a producer? A soul music expert takes a critical look at his debut album. There are some great songs, there are lots of fillers. Legend has a long way to go to live up to his name.

Twice-exceptional students are often underserved and misplaced into programs that only address one of their exceptionalities. This leads to alienation and underachievement. Educators must learn to recognize and address the issues facing these students.

Network television has become its own worst enemy. By broadcasting fewer new episodes, more reruns, preempting hits, and maintaining a "Cancel Quickly" mentality, the broadcast networks are contributing to their own decline.

I sat through Daredevil, which I'm convinced remains a great way to give yourself nausea. And Jennifer Garner's cute, so why not? I give all films a chance, and I wasn't expecting much.

Emulators are actually the saviors of classics of eras past. It is time to realize this!

Act of War: Direct Action combines both an unoriginal RTS engine with original ideas to form a fairly exciting game.

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The band has managed to create an album that the average music fan can enjoy with melodies and straight driving drumming from Portnoy for the most part,allowing sonic pleasures rarely given from the New York based prog-rockers.