Sex, money and marital dysfunction: It’s all there in the Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce settlement, splayed out in 58 revelatory pages that read more like a British tabloid story than a legal decision.

By the time Donald Rumsfeld stepped down as defense secretary in 2006, even members of his own party thought he had overstayed his welcome after nearly six years heading the Defense Department and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Al Gore likes to style himself a latter-day prophet, crisscrossing the country warning about global warming and the need to do something about it.

As media reports suggested, it was a case of The Terminator taking on Dirty Harry and The Terminator winning.

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has hired one of the best spinmeisters in the business to help him climb out of the pit of public disgrace.

When former presidential hopeful Fred Thompson decide to returnto the entertainment biz, he turned to the William Morris Agency.

If Hillary Clinton is a ninth cousin (twice removed) to Angelina Jolie, and Barack Obama is a ninth cousin to Brad Pitt, maybe the race for the Democratic nomination is just an ancient lovers’ quarrel, looping endlessly, one generation to the next.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are only the latest of a long list of Americans who have reached out to besieged Tibetans.

Cascadilla Creek cuts through one of Ithaca, New York’s famously gorgeous gorges and then moseys through residential downtown. On its northern bank, as it passes under North Aurora Street, sits a large, slate-roofed, circa-1913 house. In the 1970s it was Teen Challenge, a faith-based drug treatment center. Then, it passed into the hands of the Sherman family (including this writer), who sold it to an architect, who sold it, indirectly to the Dalai Lama.

Roger J. Stone Jr. has spent most of his adult life engaged in what some call “aggressive campaign tactics” and others call “dirty tricks.”