Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a read more

Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a thing of beauty is a joy forever.

It's important that the community has its questions answered and its concerns addressed.

It's important that the community has its questions answered and its concerns addressed.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do read more

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is read more

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country read more

There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.

It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from read more

It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from her reception to go to her father's deathbed.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet read more

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that read more

This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.