The suicide of Mark Madoff, the 46-year-old elder son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, has all the trappings of a Greek tragedy. Madoff hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest for wha ...
China's Global War on Human Rights... P&G stops tuning in for TV soap operas... Mice Are Created From Two Males... And a push for stricter Abortion limits is expected in House ...
Protesters attack car carrying Prince Charles... Clinic serving performers in Pornography Is Closed... Repeal of Gay Ban Fails in Senate... And Coed Quarters and Free Birth Control-The New Campus Culture? ...
Though his work is almost universally known within the English-speaking world, Charles Jennens is virtually unknown. He was a brilliant librettist -- a writer of texts to be put to music by others. Born in the year 1700, Jennens inherited his father' ...
Analog Parents and Digital Teens... Politics without labels?... Ackman seeks to salvage a profit in Mega-Bookstores with Barnes and Noble Bid... Barnes and Borders? Bookstore Merger Proposed... And Murmurs of Primary challenge to Obama ...
The campus of George Washington University must be an interesting place to be -- and it looks like it may quickly become a lot more interesting. Consider these opening words from a report in The Washington Post: "The long-eroding boundaries that once ...
Remembering John Lenon and The Beatles... The Death of Elizabeth Edwards... A necessary censoring in the House... The Divorce Industrial Process... And Extreme Makeover: Criminal Court Edition ...
The great code word for art meant to scandalize is "transgressive." The term was well-established by the end of the 1960s, when artists sought to scandalize middle-class morality by "transgressing" moral boundaries. Artists and writers began pushing ...
Sunday's edition of The New York Times gave front-page attention to the problem of adolescent bullying on the Internet. There can be no question that the Internet and the explosion of social media have facilitated the arrival of a new and deeply sini ...
A look back on Pearl Harbor.. A Retreat from Marriage... Noah's Ark... And Tax Cuts ...