We are arguing about blondes when the Russian boys come barreling in.

The seat of empire until three centuries ago, Naples now resists change.

Obama's war-of-wills with Bush goes to the heart of the future.

It’s time for CLEAN-tom or "il nero" to fix it up. "If only America would decide."

She mixed disinterested sexuality and teasing with passion and pose.

Obama-Clinton has turned into a metaphor for a country’s pluralistic squabbles.

The S-word is so casual and remote from the punitive that its Boy Scout edge has dulled.

Benedict’s impact, gentle or less so, is largely limited to his people.

America sees nothing of itself in Iraq’s humbling chaos.

The flu will tell you when it’s thirsty. Do not attempt to drown it on the advice of your local sorcerer.

I, Khrushchev, leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, negotiator of bedtime pacts, listened awestruck.