Do the rich pay their fair share in taxes? This is likely to become a defining question during the presidential campaign.

Of all the campaign themes that will emerge leading up to the 2008 primaries, one you probably won’t hear a lot about is experience.

Ms. Ramírez is a psychiatrist who prefers the title of "first woman" to "first lady" and leads efforts to bar underweight models from Medellín’s fashion shows. She also challenged beauty pageants through alternative contests that reward knowledge of science, literature and business.

"She seemed to grow calmer as the world around her grew more furious," Mr. Moyers said.

I face the prospect of another campaign like an open-ended stay in a concentration camp.

On one thing, the Constitution is clear: Congress makes the rules on prisoners.

"There were people who dropped the ball," Mr. Colombo said.

An injured officer might be "up-triaged a little bit" at the hospital, he said.

"I don’t enjoy it anymore," he said at the time.

While the jail already has cable television, he said he was now arranging for a satellite dish, because Mr. Taylor and Mr. Lubanga wanted news from Africa.

His account of an unexpected root-canal procedure at the hands of a chador-wearing dentist is a small masterpiece of painful hilarity.

These books are written entirely by me from my own ideas, though some people persist in thinking that I wrote them with Bob. This would be rather difficult to do, since he’s dead.

"The activity in his brain ceased. And that’s death in New York State."

Like is the new say.

Wikipedia consistently favors the current and the kitschy.

It seems that people who vacation on a Caribbean cruise prefer fun, sun and kitschy dinner theater and would rather not think about how to make their 401(k)’s work harder for them.

The younger set is now willing to put its navel rings and lower-back tattoos under wraps in favor of the thrill of a new frock.