Katherine Lanpher

While one president is on his way out and the other is on his way in, Congress is busily moving ahead with legislation. The Democrats want to have an expanded child health care progra...

"Somebody from a rival cartel pulled up in a car, snatched this girl, threw her in the back of the car, drove away, called the guy and said, 'we've got your daughter and we're going t...

"The Australian Tourist Ministry is really looking at this as a feature-length advertisment, in the hope it will replicate the 'Crocodile Dundee Effect.'" --Nick Bryant on Baz Lu...

» Video: "America's Disappearing Forests" (The New York Times) » "Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West" (The New York Times) "If you stand on a mountaintop in ...

"Obama is going to form a working coalition and put people in it that give him the votes when he needs them. If you think that you're going to have all Democrats, all highly partisan ...

"Option one is Lieberman could be kicked out of the Caucus entirely."
--Todd Zwillich on the political fate of Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.)

"That's God's wife. Not only did he have a wife, but he had many girlfriends, too."
--Gary Glassman, from the upcoming Nova documentary on the Bible

"Moments later, Jones pulled out vats of Flavor-Aid (not Kool-Aid, as the urban legend goes) containing valium, cyanide and more -- a deadly cocktail. And he urged members to commit '...

"I don't think we're close to a bottom now."
-- Dr. Richard K. Green on the housing market

"I think it's a moral imperative that we grant these people an amnesty because they were often toddlers and children when they entered the United States. And they are not guilty of an...

"Not only is it the largest vessel that has been attacked -- over 300,000 metric tons -- it's almost three times the size of a U.S. naval aircraft carrier." --Nathan Christiansen...

"It is under nine dollars for the first time in about thirteen years. It was at fifty-some dollars about fifteen months ago."
--David Enrich on Citigroup's stock price

"They say 'We have a double bottom line.' They are concerned about the community and concerned about making profits."
--Daniel Gross on ethical subprime lending

"Instead of planning for the prison, how about some money for Head Start? How about some money to keep families together?"
--Ted Conover on what prisoners want in prison reform

"The actual work is being contracted out to private companies -- to Wall Street banks, to banks like Bank of New York, Mellon. In many cases these are the companies that are at the he...

"These economies are inherently weaker because they have lots of that good regulation that folks on the left think will cure America."
Peter Morici on the European economic recession

"Americans are at the bottom of the developed world in how much we save."
--Ronald Wilcox on American debt