Like many other twentieth-century writers who think of their work as developing organically rather than in response to artificially imposed distinctions of genre, Mary Lavin has produced fiction that varies in length from that of the short, short story t...

Twelve years of war in Lebanon have produced norms of conduct which help people adapt to the unending chaos. There are the chronically depressed and there are the diehard optimists who cling to whatever hope is left amid Lebanon's ruins. There is even one...

Byline: Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent It has been five years since games have been played on fields at South Middle School in Arlington Heights, but that all changes April(14 when a full slate of soccer games begin. Not since...

Ohio State's Ted Ginn Jr. returned the opening kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown, but Florida quarterback Chris Leak led three scoring drives to give the Gators a 21-7 lead early in the second quarter of the BCS championship game on Monday night.Leak, who completed...

Women in predominantly Muslim countries are struggling to compete for jobs, win equal pay and hold political office, falling behind the rest of the world in eliminating discrimination, a report said Thursday.Nordic nations, by contrast, received the best overall grades for gender parity in education,...