Thomas Mann

HOLLYWOOD GETS SMARTER. Who knew Los Angeles was ever the cultural center of the world? "Shadows in Paradise" (10 p.m., WNET/13) documents the 1930s era, when Hitler's rise to power sent German artists and intellectuals fleeing to work in Hollywood -...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ With the deepening U.S. economic crisis rippling around the globe, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain seem to agree the question facing anxious voters is: Who do you trust? "All we heard from Sen. McCain was more of the...

At a moment when he would otherwise be focused almost entirely on influencing the nation's decision about who succeeds him, President Bush is suddenly focused instead on doing the job himself. With his speech last night, he was sending two messages:...

Ten minutes before, we had been strangers. Now, he was fairly shouting at me, "I stared into the face of Satan over there! Let me tell you, war is hell! Sheer hell." Abruptly, he limped away, holding firmly in his right hand a well-used cane. Who was...

At a moment when he would otherwise be focused almost entirely on influencing the nation's decision about who succeeds him, President Bush is suddenly focused instead on doing the job himself. So there he was, addressing a prime-time television...

PHILADELPHIA - John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin yesterday revealed that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, a stunning announcement that swept a Republican convention already subdued and scaled back on its opening day by...

The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....

Car won't start? Don't call AAA. Just grab a copy of Stephanie Kuehnert's "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" (MTV Books), hook it up to a pair of jumper cables, connect the other end to the car battery--and stand back. The power surge emanating from the 28-...

Car won't start? Don't call AAA. Just grab a copy of Stephanie Kuehnert's "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" (MTV Books), hook it up to a pair of jumper cables, connect the other end to the car battery—and stand back. The power surge emanating from the...

WASHINGTON - Just two days after gas prices hit $4 a gallon nationwide, Democrats took their answer to consumers' pain at the pump to the Senate floor, with a windfall profits tax on Big Oil as the centerpiece. But even that milestone wasn't enough to...

In a one-page letter released Thursday, Sen. Barack Obama's primary care physician said the Democratic presidential candidate has been in "excellent health" during the 21 years he has been a patient. Obama's campaign, however, declined to say whether the...

LA JOLLA -- As your eyes plot the final few steps down the central staircase in UC San Diego's new student center, they land on a red terrazzo text panel that reads: "Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror." Not exactly a soft landing but...