When duty calls, that is when character counts.

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

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

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

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

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.

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.