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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians. Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on Jun...

Pearl S. Buck's genius as a writer lay in her ability to portray her characters in a universal manner; their joys, sorrows, problems, and disillusionments transcend cultural barriers to become understandable to all readers. Buck's earlier works, most of...

"One pays the price for being prolific," bestselling author Pearl S. Buck once told an interviewer. "Heaven knows the literary Establishment can't forgive me for it, nor for the fact that my books sell." In retrospect, Buck's assessment of her own career...

Politics: Not every Democrat concedes that the surge is working. In her radio response to President Bush, a member of the opposing party tells us what she did on her summer vacation.Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who recently visited Iraq while Congress was on vacation, was...

House debate over the Iraq war did more than pit Democrat against Republican. It pitted ghosts of the past against each other.Historical figures, some long gone, were invoked in the debate Tuesday. A terrorist's dark words were enlisted. So were the musings of a poet....

On one side: Abe Lincoln, Davy Crockett, poet Robert Frost. On the other: Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King Jr.The House debate on the Iraq war has a ghostly quality as lawmakers tap the wisdom of long-dead men to press their case. No one...

Today is Saturday, June 16, the 167th day of 2007. There are 198 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 16, 1858, in a speech in Springfield, Ill., Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house...