I’d get too tearful if I had to let him go, … We really didn’t need three, but after having him here for 10, 11 days, he is just the perfect dog.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or...

Students end up giving themselves away for things that are bigger and better than they are.

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than...

All the sound the audience hears goes from the mixing console through a bunch of Lake processors.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

If Ukraine holds out and manages to strike a compromise with Russia, then Russia’s ambitions to restore its influence in this part of the former Soviet empire could be finished.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn’t vetting the pictures and words.

Well, I think everybody’s a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can...

You yelled at us, cursed at us, hit us with brooms, rulers, sticks, shoes and belt buckles. I still have the marks to prove it.