Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a tenacious negotiator, loved to communicate her mood and intentions in a more subtle way — through her brooches. ...more

April 1, 2009

The problem with our view of history is we revere the violence rather than review the issues that caused it. Movies display in detail the attack on Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge. Re-enactors playing dress-up perform in Kabuki-like ritual, a dumb show, reliving the carnage of Civil War battles, parading about old battlefields, while we dissect the tactics, the geography of military movement but rarely focus on the causes, the events which brought us into conflict. ...more

December 8, 2008

Jonny Cocker recently completed his first year driving against the teams and racing on the circuits of the American Le Mans Series. Reflecting on the speed and performance of his and co-pilot Paul Drayson's 007 Aston Martin Vantage GT2, the pairing scored four top-10 finishes in GT2 including a season-best seventh to close the year at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. ...more

November 4, 2008

Looking healthy and alert, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs made her first public appearance Tuesday since surgeons removed the extra limbs nearly a week ago. ...more

November 14, 2007