After Secretary of State Colin Powell makes his presentation to the United Nations today, don’t listen for the “European” reaction. Read on »

It’s awfully lonely being Christine Whitman. Love her or hate her, it’s impossible not to feel a pang of sympathy for the former governor of New Jersey, now administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Read on »

I met Wladyslaw Szpilman a year before he died, in his comfortable, well-appointed Warsaw home. Read on »

I have just cloned a baby. To be precise, I found some sticks and stones in my back yard, crushed them with my coffee grinder, threw them in a cauldron and added eye of newt and toe of frog. Read on »

If you haven’t seen the new James Bond film, “Die Another Day,” and you don’t want to know what happens, stop reading here. Read on »

Moscow — Christmas lights twinkled throughout this city last week, and Christmas carols filled the air. Read on »

A couple of days ago, a politician of my acquaintance received an e-mail from a student in a foreign country. Politely, the student asked if he could conduct an electronic “interview” with the politician. The politician agreed. Read on »

Perhaps it’s because I lived for 10 years in London, where professional women long ago discovered the secret of competing with men who belong to all-male eating clubs (they go to restaurants). Read on »

Are Israel and Northern Ireland similar? The short answer is no, and the reasons — religious, cultural and political — hardly need listing. Read on »

There are few political obituaries more enjoyable to write than that of Joerg Haider, so I won’t resist the temptation: As of yesterday, Haider, the Austrian politician who came bouncing onto the political scene a few years ago wearing Spandex bicycle shorts, denouncing immigrants and spouting carefully crafted nuggets of Anschluss nostalgia, is officially a spent force. Read on »