Khanna added, "If you had asked me in 2001 if this was where we'd be in 2005, I would have said, 'That's terrific, but aren't you being overoptimistic?' " Special correspondent Rama Lakshmi contributed to this report. (washingtonpost.com)

What's disturbing about this spectacle is not so much its tastelessness; America will always have a fatal attraction to sideshows. (nytimes.com)

Most nights, I watched two sweet-looking old ladies sneak down the hall to purloin supplies at the nurses' station - cat burglars heisting Depends. (nytimes.com)

Now it would be nice to see members of Congress, including the many free-trade senators who cravenly voted for the Byrd amendment, come to their senses and repeal it. (nytimes.com)

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who presided over the Mass, had the delicate task of eulogizing John Paul while also pinpointing work that remained unfinished. (washingtonpost.com)

It began, as no one needs reminding, with the invention of the touch-tone phone and the subsequent, tauntingly named "voice mail" system, in which a voice is the thing precisely never heard. (nytimes.com)

Woods muffed his tee shot. (washingtonpost.com)

He wrote a scandal-management book, "Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself." Robert Bennett, a Washington lawyer who has made a career defending such people, said Davis vastly oversimplifies. (washingtonpost.com)

It could embroil the Senate in a bitter stalemate that would complicate passage of President Bush's agenda and raise questions about Frist's leadership capabilities. (washingtonpost.com)

Someday, consumers will become passive refuseniks or revolt. (nytimes.com)

For the study, Miesenböck and Lima focused on a specific set of neural circuits, called the giant fiber (GF) system, involved in escape. (discovery.com)

I'm doubting it will happen," said Mataruse, her eyes fixed on the floor as her youngest daughter, 6-year-old Florence, sat unsmilingly beside her, wearing a white dress. (washingtonpost.com)

The family belonged to the old Indian Springs Club in Maryland, where Bobby and his older brother, Jimmy, played during the week and caddied on weekends. (washingtonpost.com)

In an episode certain to be scrutinized anew, Joseph Ratzinger was briefly and unenthusiastically a member of the Hitler Youth in his early teens, after membership became mandatory in 1941, according to a biography by John L. (nytimes.com)

According to firsthand accounts, he spent his final hours urging passengers to wear their lifebelts and to board the rescue boats. (discovery.com)

This is a difficult moment for the civil rights movement, which is understandably fearful of taking positions that would discomfit the teachers among its supporters. (nytimes.com)

This experience will never be dearer now that Massachusetts has come up with the misbegotten idea of introducing virtual horse racing - a bloodless, computer-generated cycling of nonentities aping thoroughbreds on a TV screen. (nytimes.com)

McBrien, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame, said Ratzinger's homily indicated that he believes the pope's role is to "protect the sheep from the prowling wolves of unorthodoxy and relativism. (washingtonpost.com)

With saliva, all a patient has to do is expectorate. (nytimes.com)

For "Private Ryan," Lines cut out some of the gorier moments from the movie's 24-minute depiction of the landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day. (washingtonpost.com)

All were dressed in their traditional red-trimmed black cassocks, their waists wrapped in scarlet sashes and their heads bobbing beneath scarlet skullcaps. (washingtonpost.com)

DeLay began building his megamachine with a breathtakingly hubristic "pay to play" system. (nytimes.com)

In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying. (nytimes.com)

On Tuesday he stayed ahead in the count, and for the first time in his career, Nomo confounded Yankees batters with his twisting pitching motion that takes a lengthy pause just before uncoiling and delivering. (washingtonpost.com)