Widower's Tango

I continue to read of Moritz Thomsen's misadventures as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador with frequent shocks of recognition. But I ha...

The award-winning documentary, The Cove, is a quite cleverly made peek at the secretive harvest in Japan of dolphins for their meat - a prac...

In an interview with José Bergamín I read long ago, he asked, "If the Greeks had met the Prophets, what would they have had to exchange...

Of all the "gentlemanly" sports (cricket, polo, tennis), the one that is the most objectionably snobbish must certainly be golf. I...

There is about the swimmer a sentimentality, or self-pity, which disgusts him even as he finds himself thinking that surely he ought to have...

A report on Imelda Marcos was aired on the BBC on March 26 which honestly assessed her continuing role, at the age of 80, in the politics of...

It was amusing to see earth-friendly Filipino celebs on national TV encouraging residents of Manila, who suffered weeks of rolling blackouts...