Few things sting more than getting back a paper mercilessly marked in red ink. All those lines and squiggles are enough to destroy the morale of the most resolute slacker. Tantrums and tears follow when those mistakes result in a significant plunge in your grade.

Students complain about their professors being too hard on their papers when it comes to grammar and spelling. But can you blame them? Professors have to grade papers from star pupils at the "Derek Zoolander Center for Children Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too."

Nike has found the solution to help you "Leave Nothing."A few weeks ago, when I was watching SportsCenter, I saw the new Nike football commercial during one of the breaks.

It was a well done 30- to 40-second clip in which you see a few of the best players in the league making plays with the help of Nike.

But, at the end of the commercial, I was not left thinking about football - or Nike. It actually made me think about Michael Vick.

When Vick was indicted by a federal grand jury July 17, according to ESPN.com news services, he quickly lost everything.

NEW YORK - The chants of protesters and speeches of supporters faded away outside as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran addressed students and faculty at Columbia University on Monday afternoon, asserting his nation's right to develop nuclear energy and asking for additional research perspectives on the Holocaust.Lee C. Bollinger, president of the university, opened the discussion, which was part of the World Leaders Forum, sponsored by Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

There was nothing civil about Andrew Meyer, the 21-year-old University of Florida student who met the business end of a Taser on Monday at a John Kerry forum.

After 21 years and 26 matches, the soccer team will be looking for the program's first win against SMU tonight in Dallas.Since TCU's first match with SMU back in 1986, the team has an all-time record of 0-24-2 against the Mustangs including a 2-0 loss last season in Fort Worth.

Even with the 0-24-2 all-time record, freshman defender and midfielder Cheryl Martin guaranteed a win for the Horned Frogs.

"I think that our team this year, we're so much better," Martin said. "There's no chance we won't beat them."

The nearly 300-year history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is one of the most shameful episodes in Western history. Yet it has taken centuries for those responsible for this operation to acknowledge and apologize for their roles.Recently, London Mayor Ken Livingstone tearfully apologized for the role London played in the slave trade. Both former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair and Livingstone have admitted how deeply sorrowed they are about this aspect of their country's history at events prior to Livingstone's recent remarks, but without official apologies.

Fantasy football is all about sure bets and calculated risks, but no one expected the big three running backs of this year's draft to become risks on game-day rosters.LaDainian Tomlinson, Steven Jackson and Larry Johnson are all struggling so far this season, even though LT is still finding ways to rack up points by playing quarterback and wide receiver.

Though Jackson apologizes to teammates, and Johnson takes a random day off, make sure to stick it out with these guys and not to take any cheap deals from owners looking to buy low.

We've seen him on television nearly every Sunday since 1987. His five o'clock shadow, beer belly and catchphrase "D'oh" have turned him into an animated celebrity.Homer Jay Simpson has become the TV dad that, despite his downfalls, zany schemes and shortcomings, has shown a love for his family that is missed by some modern animated TV parents.

Of course, animated fathers such as Peter Griffin of Seth MacFarlane's "Family Guy," Stan Smith of "American Dad" (also by MacFarlane) and Hank Hill of Mike Judge's "King of the Hill," also face family situations.