In a city with 8 million people, five boroughs, 24 subway lines and two major-league baseball teams, even the most ardent New Yorker had a hard time keeping track of the many faces of Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The first siege of Fallujah was under way in Iraq in April 2004 when a furious Marine lieutenant grabbed a satellite phone and shouted a stream of expletives at the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
For John McCain, everything goes back to a book he picked up in his father's study nearly 60 years ago. Before his 2000 presidential run made the Arizona Republican senator a political phenomenon. Before his campaign-finance crusade cemented his reformer bona fides. Before the Keating Five scandal nearly cost him what he holds most dear -- his reputation. Before his now-legendary U.S. Navy career and the brutal years in a North Vietnamese prison.
Fatherhood and ambition. In Fred Thompson's life, they rise and fall together, a recurring couplet in the nostalgic story of a Tennessee fella who's guided more by life's surprises and others' expectations than he is by any master plan.
The Miami Herald's photographers share a trove of images that they find memorable and personally remarkable.
This is adapted from a column that was in El Nuevo Herald on Feb. 19, 2006: Indifference is king in this world. It's king because it doesn't hate or feel anyone else's pain. Indifference doesn't know hatred and suffering, doesn't experience them and couldn't care less.
It's refreshing to discover a journalist like Daniel Shoer Roth. Cultured, well-informed, sharply observant, precise in his details, truthful and with a balanced point of view, Shoer Roth writes for the community and on behalf of the community. . . .
Homicide is the second-leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds living in South Florida. And for the African Americans and Hispanics in this same age group, it is the No. 1 cause of death. Unfortunately, it is becoming all too common to see our children dying very violently in the streets of South Florida.
In many respects, Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko, is like a trial for those who oversee healthcare in the United States. The industry -- doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers -- is charged with greed and putting personal interests above patients'. Moore heard from thousands of people who had maddening and heartbreaking brushes with this system.
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It isn't surprising that critics of Michael Moore's Sicko are desperate to quibble with his finer points. After all, denial is the first stage of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross's model of dealing with grief, and the tragedy before us is, of course, the agonizing death of an inadequate medical system.
Every divorced guy would love an ex-wife like Barbara Gomez. As the chief of Miami's public housing agency, she helped funnel more than $1 million in city contracts to companies employing one of her former husbands.
City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and a few members of his staff met with the editorial board, editors and reporters at The Miami Herald on Tuesday to discuss the "House of Lies: Miami's Crisis'' articles that appeared on Sunday, June 3.
With neon green and purple chairs in tiered rows, the auditorium in Harvard's science center looks like a stadium theater. But the physics professor at the front of the room, Eric Mazur, takes pains not to behave like a sage on the stage.
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