Please tell me more about my prayer table. I inherited it from my grandmother years ago. I would like to know what type of wood it is made of and its value. It has been refinished. ...more

February 8, 2009

NEW YORK — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died today at age 76. Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Mass., died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. ...more

January 27, 2009

We have created a global financial crisis that affected financial institutions worldwide. ...more

September 30, 2008

Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "the American empire" is nearing collapse. ...more

September 24, 2008