Somewhere, Willie and Joe are proud and grateful
The world, as it always has, circles around. What came before will always return. When we're lucky, this truth applies to goodness. The goodness will circle around and come right...
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The letdown will be if they don’t strike
Millions of Americans will be deeply disappointed, even depressed, if the big-league baseball players don't strike. If the ballplayers call off the strike they've been threatening -- if, at the...
The tough U.S. economy and the $74 steak
Economic times in the United States right now are "tough," according to President Bush, but the same can't be said for the $74 steak at Signatures restaurant, eight blocks from...
Major-league players, owners should read this
The obituaries for Enos "Country" Slaughter last week all stressed what the Hall of Fame outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals did in the 1946 World Series: scrambled all the...
Bill Mauldin’s portrait of an infantryman
You have been magnificent to Bill Mauldin -- as if there had been a moment's doubt that you would be. Last Sunday's column about Bill -- the great World War...
It’s not the new ways that seem strange
It's not that the things that have changed make no sense. It's not the changes that particularly surprise us. It's worse than that. It's that -- looking back on the...
The 30-minute rule and the mosquitoes
Between the 30-minute rule and the mosquitoes, the answer may reside. At least that is what the baggage guy and I were theorizing on a warm August morning at Reagan...
Bill Mauldin is in need of his buddies now
Someone from the 3rd Infantry Division got in touch and said he thought I'd want to know. He said it was about Bill Mauldin. What followed was not so good....
Listen, world: This cow is not going down
The last 12 months have been times of terrible news, and we all have had to become accustomed to that. But the other day came a piece of bad-news-in-the-making that...
The uncoolest guest at a cool hotel
One of the many disadvantages of being the uncoolest person in the world is that coolness is always blind-siding you, even when you have done nothing to seek it out....