Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.