Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.