If his game were baseball, Alan Greenspan would have had one helluva batting average. But when the former Federal Reserve chairman defensively told Congress last week that in his two decades ...

Who would be a referee? This week it's Frenchman Roman Poite in the firing line for howlers committed against South Africa, next week it will be someone else, and the week after someone else again.

What is wrong with the United States? This is the question Soros sets out to answer in this short but fascinating book. Readers conversant with the Soros oeuvre will find much that is familiar (a ...