This letter is a response to Ted Rall's "Liberal Point of View" in Friday's paper. I figured I was in for an opposing view when I started to read the article, titled "Puffing Up John McCain." Whether you agree with McCain's politics, this bleeding heart liberal has no right to disparage McCain's war record. ...more

February 9, 2008

One of the most dynamic offensive players in the Atlantic Coast Conference dribbled up the court as the clock ticked toward 30 seconds left in the game, and his team trailing by a point. As Virginia's Sean Singletary bounced up the court, the ACC's leading thief hounded him relentlessly. ...more

January 24, 2008

Students in Dellarine Anderson's kindergarten class at Hugo Schmidt Elementary made their Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration personal this year when they assembled their own drawing of the hero of the civil rights movement. Modeled after King's "I have a dream" speech, the students also added their own dreams, completing the sentence "I have a dream of ..." ...more

January 23, 2008

A 2-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs left a hospital in southern India on Saturday, little more than a month after surgeons successfully removed her extra limbs. ...more

December 16, 2007

Jay Leno has pulled ahead of Conan O'Brien in the race to be crowned most compassionate NBC late-night show host, officially telling the laid-off crew of "The Tonight Show" he would continue to pay their salaries through Christmas at the very least. ...more

December 10, 2007

I read with great emotion the Nov. 29 letter of the day from John Berninger regarding the death of his brother. ...more

December 2, 2007

My brother died Tuesday. He was in the truest sense my hero. He taught me how to play baseball, how to throw a football and how to ride a bike. For more than 30 years he taught "shop" in high school - woodworking, car repair, metal working. No one unknown to him will leave flowers at his door, his name will not be headlines news, he was not a thug, nor did he have that mentality. His whole life was spent trying to help others. ...more

November 29, 2007

'Dexter in the Dark,' by Jeff Lindsay (Doubleday, $24) ...more

September 16, 2007