The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.