I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.