The Italian popularity of TV's “House, M.D.” — or “Doctor House” — is all about boys and girls thrilled by loners they can’t be.

Surge is the done deal word, and a “cool” one at that, but the one that's left behind is summit.

A trip to USA .07 yields awesome med-peddlers and close encounters with the ruling crass.

Executing Saddam Hussein is hardly a triumph of justice or good intentions. It just unfinished business.

Both state and church associate destiny with hardship, and hardship with hope.

Iraq is the first American war whose casualties threaten neither government leadership nor siphon from the ruling class.

"You have all these syndicated shows about doctors and cops and lawyers, and we were thinking: Isn't it our turn?"

I manage anger; I am sensitive; I train others to kneel. My faith is yours, an adaptation.

Saddam Hussein’s inevitable death sentence comes as Nero fiddles.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Vietnamese sugar threat and Indonesian pillows...

American interventionism wants to tease David from Michelangelo's marble.