Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.