It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That’s when she needs you at her side.
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
TV is a fickle business. I’m only good for the length of my contract.
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew’s account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon’s post-Watergate life is equally compelling.
Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.
It’s not the questions that get us in trouble – it’s the answers...
I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
What I think is highly inappropriate is what’s going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that’s quite outrageous.
Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.
Votes are something that you earn.
It doesn’t do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.
Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin’s biography captures it all – the public and private Hope.
Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.
I hope the World War II generation doesn’t lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America’s hidden 20th century history – the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.
Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.
It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.