41. Four games into defending their Super Bowl crown, the Cowboys have become a stumbling shadow of their former proud selves. 42. Greenlaw, meanwhile, is a frail version of his former robust self. 43. He plodded through a clumsy performance, looking like a soft shell of his former self. 44. He is destined to be a role player here and nothing more, unless a dramatic, unexpected relapse to his former All-Star self is shown. 45. He was the ultimate celebrity criminal, but journalists who visited Biggs in recent months say he is a shell of his former self. 46. Homestore, which until late summer was hailed as an online powerhouse in the making, is now a ghost of its former self. 47. Hodge will reappear occasionally as a ghost of her former self. 48. I gave up on boxing several years ago, after Muhammed Ali became a shell of his former self because of too many blows to the head. 49. I still showed up in the right places at the right time, though I felt like a ghost of my former self. 50. If not, Pitt and his colleagues will find themselves overseeing an equities market that is a shell of its former self. |