Joseph Heller has established himself as a major satirist in the field of contemporary American fiction. A new phrase was added to the American lexicon from the title of his first novel Catch-22 (1961). The term "catch-22" has become accepted in Webster'...

Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22 (1961), is considered a classic of the post-World War II era. Presenting human existence as absurd and fragmented, this irreverent, witty novel satiri...

When Joseph Heller learned that the New York Times Book Review's response to his first novel was negative, he and his family were terribly depressed. "Waiting for that review to come out," he later told David Streitfeld of New York, "I didn't think any o...

Barack Obama and his wife were just met with rioutous applause. The first thing he said was, "Thank you New Hampshire." There's no sense of defeat or loss to them whatsoever--you'd have no sense at all that he hadn't won the primary if you hadn't...

Excerpts of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on his finish in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.OBAMA: Thank you, New Hampshire. I love you back. Thank you. Thank you.Well, thank you so much. I am still fired up and ready to go....Well, first...

Four crew members were missing from a boat found adrift and two passengers, one of them a fugitive from Arkansas, were being questioned by federal authorities Tuesday after they were rescued in the Florida Straits near Cuba.Kirby Logan Archer, 35, of Strawberry, Ark., and Guillermo...

Britain's MI5 domestic intelligence agency plans to send out e-mail terror alerts to the public, pioneering an effort to use the Internet to warn of heightened risk. Anyone who wants to track the perceived level of threat to Britain _ which has been set at...