Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.