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)