Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!