The hiring of those new detectives is not specifically in response to the spike in murders we are seeing this year, but it certainly comes at a good time for the homicide unit.

They say some of these rats are so big that if they wanted to, they could pick a fight with a small dog.

That sent the Georgia fan sitting behind him into a fit of rage.

We are told he is the one who stabbed 72-year-old Jerry Smith.

We believe the recent demand pullback is mostly a short-run response to a price spike, not a long-run shift in consumption patterns.

It is specifically American, ... but that's not to say it's not universal. And I'm not fudging it. It is a parable of art that, to be universal, you must be specific. Otherwise, you are just talking about an abstraction. So you have to talk about a particular person and a particular place. Specificity is the essence of art. But it doesn't mean it doesn't have universal resonance.