Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.