Back during the Anglican communion crisis I half-mischievously suggested that the Archbishop of Canterbury should dispatch his quarrelling bishops to the Marian shrine of Lourdes in south-west France because nbsp -- and here I was in deadly earnest -- it is the one of the greatest forgers of commun

Some people hate subways but as a twice daily user ndash two trains into Manhattan from Brooklyn and two back ndash I have learned not only to accept that hour-plus ride each way but even to enjoy it Leaving Brooklyn soon after 5 a m I take my first train from the Crown Heights area four stops

I remember a conversation I had with a Washington sage in December of 2000 shortly after the Supreme Court stopped the counting of votes in Florida awarding the presidency to George W Bush The country will be fine It will be like the 1840s and 1850s my friend said No one remembers the pres

The British prime minister who arrives today in New York is for the time being safe from his own party following a vigorous speech at the Labor conference Gordon Brown saw off the vultures circulating around his leadership and bought himself time with what has been widely praised as the speech

When I read Holland Carter s near rhapsodic review in the August 7th edition of The New York Times of the current exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture --you will excuse the pun--I knew I had to see that Gian Lorenzo Bernini show or bust

Barack Obama rsquo s convention speech was the last time he had the undivided attention of the American people to make a sustained argument for his candidacy The debates will be critical as everyone agrees But in the meantime he can frame the race by delivering four soundbites that hit on key is