The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.