Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign.

Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.

[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.

journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.