Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.