The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.
The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
Tess: You of all people should know Terry, in your hotel, there's always someone watching.
Terry Pugh: [after getting kicked in the head by Butch] I'm bleeding, you happy?
It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
