We said at the time we were very unhappy with that course of action.

There does not appear, in our view, to be any legal basis in the Belarus constitution for the action that President Lukashenko has been taking.

Knowledge is useless without action. Action requires knowledge but knowledge does not guarantee action.

[That doesn't sound like a bad course of action for the Presidents Cup, either. Sooner or later it will have to leave the snug confines of Virginia and be contested on the home ground of one of the International team's players. But that will take time.] Tradition is not generated overnight, ... For only the second playing of this event, this was a very big step forward.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.