“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” (Hamlet).  As in Europe, in America too.  Greeks are rioting to maintain their entitlements, German and French leaders fret about their over-exposed banks and European bailouts come and go.   Meanwhile, the United States is stuck in a debate over whether to raise its debt ceiling, the threat [...]...

If gossip is a sin, the News of the World was the most sinful of newspapers even before it was exposed in the current scandal.  The British Sunday tabloid made its living by revealing the secrets of the famous and the powerful to its four million readers, nonchalantly characterizing them as “scoops”.  After its own [...]...