The resolution of these issues ensures that this evidence of one of the most tragic events in American history will be protected for scholarly and research uses.

Given the Court of Appeals decision, this is a fair resolution for the American taxpayer.

It's not just the way the Bush administration responded to Katrina, but events afterwards. There's too much history.... The center of gravity of the Republican Party is white Southerners, the group African-Americans trust the least.

Today's decision by the arbitration panel secures the original Zapruder film for the public and guarantees that it will be preserved in the National Archives, where it belongs.

Everyone that I hoped would qualify have already done so. We will have some kids swim a couple of events to see how they place and see if they can place higher than they already have.

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.