February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his
September 10, 2004 -- On September 9, Frank Quattrone, a prominent investment banker formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston, was sentenced
October 18, 2001 -- “Manifest Destiny” is the term originally created by John L. O’Sullivan in the 1840s to describe America's westward...
October 18, 2001 -- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on October 10 to three economists whose work might have
October 16, 2001 -- As Congress prepares to pass a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a local government to kick 87-year-old Wilhelmina Dery out of the house in which she was born, along with
"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact
Let’s imagine a woman who is getting pressure from some obnoxious sleazeball stud to cheat on her husband and commit adultery. She’s tempted
December 17, 2004 -- Christmas is a season of beautiful lights, parties, gifts, food, family, friends, songs, and sentiments. Among the
Greg Hitt and Jeanne Cummings wrote on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 26, 2001): "In just two weeks, the terrorist....
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.....
The final figures are in. According to Isabelle Dubois-Costes of General Funeral Services in France, the death toll in the country's summer
We can always count on the French to show us how holding the wrong moral values and following the wrong economic policies will produce a...
September 6, 2005 -- What could be a friendlier or more welcoming place than Hawaii, America's 50th state? If S-147, the Native Hawaiian
The severe winter snows and spring flooding in much of the country have yielded this summer's bumper crop of mosquitoes that carry the
George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was..
July 20, 2004--It has been three and a half decades now since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of a dozen men to walk on the
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
She was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. At the age of nine, she decided she wanted to become a writer. As a teenager, she lived through
