By Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul. 4--By Joe Williams POST-DISPATCH MOVIE CRITIC 07/04/2008 Before a recent preview screening of the superhero satire "Hancock," an emcee asked several audience members to name their biggest hero. Most of them just shrugged.

NEW YORK _ Abraham Lincoln battled it all his life. Theodore Roosevelt struggled with it even as he negotiated the end to the Russo-Japanese War. Thomas Eagleton found himself booted off a presidential ticket because of it.

By Rob Hotakainen WASHINGTON - He was a pioneer by circumstance, not by choice. Now, 35 years after former Democratic Sen.

By Jason Rosenbaum, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Mar. 5--Missouri's former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton loomed large during the weekend's Democrat Days event in Hannibal after news spread that the 77-year-old, who died yesterday, was critically ill. U.S. Sen.

Retired U.S. Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, who played a pivotal role in national and state politics for decades, has died over the weekend in Missouri at age 77. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Eagleton suffered varied health problems prior to his death at St.