Bob Greene

`Pearl Harbor" opens next weekend, and regardless of what occurs -- whether the movie turns out to be a huge box-office success, whether it fails to meet advance expectations, or...

We all try to change the world for the better in any way we can. Here in Washington, of course, this goes on on a daily basis. Budget items are...

Forty years ago this month, Newton Minow -- then the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission -- delivered his famous "vast wasteland" speech. Speaking to the National Association of Broadcasters...

I didn't know Ginny Carroll, but I'm certain of one thing: She had no idea she was about to die. Carroll, 53, was a former Newsweek reporter who became an...

When Boeing Co. chairman Philip Condit emerged from his company jet at Midway Airport last week and waved from the doorway, like a potentate arriving in a tiny principality whose...

Everyone seems to be waiting for the Moment. The Moment comes early in each new presidency -- the Moment is an incident, a speech, a policy decision, an off-the-cuff remark...

This isn't exactly "Win one for the Gipper." Or maybe it is -- updated for the year 2001. And therein lies the tale. The lacrosse team at the United States...

Ben Bentley was Benny Goldberg first, and for all the affectionate words written and spoken about him since his death last week, something essential has been left out. Yes, he...

Thirty or 40 years from now, if he's still around, Mark McGwire may figure out that he's a victim of history. It will have nothing to do with his baseball...

Mission accomplished. That is how Paul Tibbets, 86, felt as he left the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on a recent warm spring night. He had come to make...