Absurd TONY BLAIR has called the idea of hereditary peers "absurd". It was "in principle wrong and absurd", he said last week, that people should wield power on the basis of birth rather than election or merit. Conservative intellectuals like Brian Mawhinney have...

Three new plays signify the return of the Theater of the Absurd to the American mainstream after a two-decade absence. They are Steven Dietz' 'Lonely Planet,' Nicky Silver's 'Pterodactyls' and David Ives' 'All in the Timing.' Written by playwrights who share the same view...

The problem with that theory is that sophisticated analysis can only yield helpful information if the original data is accurate. If the original data is flawed, it’s obvious that any resultant analysis will magnify those flaws. How are Web stats flawed? Let's say that an...

An Israeli government offer of a new $20 (euro15) monthly stipend to Holocaust survivors provoked outrage Tuesday, with survivors charging the meager allowance will do nothing to reverse years of neglect of the 240,000 Israelis who lived through Nazi horrors.Survivors have long claimed that European...