Bob Greene

`Civility, courage, compassion and character," a man intoned over the weekend. The man wasn't President Bush. He was a network television correspondent -- actually, several of them did this, on...

A swearing-in of some importance took place on a cold January day this year. It happened far from Washington, and nowhere near the steps of the U.S. Capitol. In order...

Boy -- talk about mixed messages. With George W. Bush headed to the White House, there has been much discussion of how the United States is returning to an era...

The reason I was so excited to be hot on the trail of the mother-daughter episode of "Then Came Bronson" was . . . Well, this will take a little...

All of the scholarly treatises that have been written about how the Internet is affecting our society . . . all of the erudite editorial analyses about how the worldwide...

In the middle of the 20th Century, many predictions were made about what life would be like in the 21st Century. Robots would serve us our meals; we would commute...

The other day, in newspapers all across the country, the usual list of this-date-in-history items appeared. You know the lists: Many papers run them every day. Such-and-such a king was...

There's a little bit of an ankle problem here. It may end up costing $92 million. The ankle -- the left one -- belongs to Grant Hill, who used to...

There was a copy of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," with an inscription in ink inside: "To Todd, with all my love, Rabbit." There was a copy of "Richard Scarry's...

The next time someone tells you that people just don't care anymore . . . The next time someone tells you that people have time only for themselves, and aren't...