The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.