I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

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

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.