Only two of Empress Zita's grandchildren knew of the priceless jewels — including the Florentine Diamond — that their grandmother had secreted in a Quebec bank vault
Read MoreThe skies are darkening, and the freedom agenda of the late 1980s is in retreat. The storm is gathering again. The chimes of freedom need to flash anew.
Read MoreThe long life of the famed entertainer, who died Aug. 25, was mostly about what united, not what divided.
Read MoreWith her profits she pioneered a different kind of philanthropy
Read MoreWhich account of the divine is more compelling — Christopher Nolan’s Homer or Pope Leo’s Dante?
Read MorePatriarch Bartholomew 's assumption of Pope Benedict XVI's academic seat in Paris highlights the enduring spiritual bond between Rome and Constantinople.
Read MoreThe World Cup puts the spotlight on the sport's greatest players, but also on the grand public spaces built to celebrate them
Read MoreThe Boss's latest tour follows a career of standing up to communists, mayors, police officers and presidents
Read MoreReading the latest volume is pure joy
Read MoreBBC's famed naturalist celebrates his centennial by narrating a new documentary about his work
Read MoreIt took its crew farther than any earthling has ever been from this lonely, lovely, lively planet
Read MoreForty years after his magical 1986 victory, the Golden Bear returns as both supreme athlete and man of character
Read MoreThomas Courchene was happy to defy the consensus on whatever issue caught his attention
Read MoreHis 1968 book, The Population Bomb, unintentionally became a racist tract of huge impact
Read MoreHe understood that one could do well by doing good
Read MoreThe reluctance to judge arises from the attraction of evading responsibility for our choices
Read MoreAntonin Scalia believed the Ten Commandments – the natural law given expression by God – is what should inform a constitution. Once written, that constitution is to be applied by judges
Read MoreA full-throated protest song would be welcome during Sunday's halftime show
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