They're like a mild cold.

The greatest crime we committed or tolerated was the savaging of our cherished Constitution.

The imbalanced relationship between France and its former African colonies would beggar belief if the psychology of Africa s liberators 50 years ago were overlooked.

Even if we disregard some of the accusations against Patil as baseless, it is hard to imagine a less powerful candidate for the highest ceremonial post in the largest democracy in the world.

Even if we set aside its masses of pork barrel spending, and analyses that show it may allow more emissions in the US for the first decades, there are more fundamental problems with this legislation.

If we connive in or tolerate the gangster like logic that only big countries can possess nuclear weapons in order to threaten or attack small countries, then essential changes will take place in the international order that will surely push non nuclear weapon States towards acquiring nuclear deterrence.