The news is all around that George W. Bush will be writing a memoir focused on 12 difficult personal and policy decisions in his life. It cannot be an accident that the format so closely apes that of John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Profiles in Courage,” which featured the stories of eight U.S. senators who [...]

The New York Times, in a story with one of those headlines containing words one never expects to see in relation to one another, is reporting that the director of a La Scala opera based on the Al Gore film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” has resigned over creative differences with the American poet writing the libretto. [...]