I just told them to relax. They seemed to get a little nervous and let Trumbull start hitting on them. I just told them to pass-and-cover (their hits) and they?d be fine.

I cried my eyes out at the end. I never thought I?d win one title but now it?s two in a row. It?s just an amazing group of kids and I?m so happy for them.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.