Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.