Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

There's nothing like being in the moment, even when that moment isn't captured or shared.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.