There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves.

There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.

Writing doesn't improve by not doing it.

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

Servility always curdles into rage in the end.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'

Some weddings take longer to plan than others.

In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense -- almost a covert longing -- that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.

Where did the inspiring Obama of the campaign go, that Facebook pied piper who friended the whole world with this update: 'Change you can believe in.' What happened to him?

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

'America' is synonymous with opportunity.