I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

European leaders are expected to disagree with Bush's olive branch.

Her nationalism was known far and wide during the war.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.