A good filmmaker with a wonderful cast can weave an illusionary spell that goes well beyond analysis. |
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't. |
America-bashing is addictive, born of power envy and nurtured by power lust among the weak, the cowardly and craven. |
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. |
Americans always respond when a president calls them, as John F. Kennedy did in his inaugural address, to defend freedom. |
At the moment, the biggest candy-and-popcorn issue for Washington is piracy. Film pirates, knocking off illegal copies of new movies, cost the industry over $3 billion a year. |
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy. |
Cold feet are often symptomatic of a legitimate intuition that you may be heading for the wrong place at the wrong time. |
Condoleezza Rice insists that all she wants be is the best secretary of state she can be, and can't imagine running for president. Perhaps. But a lot of other people have no trouble imagining it. Four years is an eternity in politics, and the secretary of state has a lot of heavy lifting ahead. |
Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him. |
Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women. |
Fame may last for only 15 minutes, in Andy Warhol's famous calculation, but it arrives quickly and requires instant attention, lest it vanish before it can be fully exploited. |
Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul. |
Forty percent of the registered voters in Afghanistan are women, and they're beginning to move into the private sector. |
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too. |