Character

USAToday has a good piece today on the subject of character, comparing and contrasting the adversities of and choices made by 3 individuals of recent notoriety: Dana Reeve, Barry Bonds, and Gordon Parks. The salient bit:

Perhaps Parks was a one-in-a-million talent, a man who never finished high school but who could teach himself to be anything. But perhaps, like Reeve and so unlike Bonds, Parks was something more: an example, one whose life makes the obstacles that many of us complain about seem trivial.