Isak Dinesen was the pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962). Her stories place her among Denmark's greatest authors. Isak Dinesen was born on April 17, 1885, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, adventurer, and autho...

Karen Blixen is the most widely recognized figure in twentieth-century Danish letters, eliciting greater critical and popular attention than any other Danish writer of this century. The scholarly studies dealing with her life and works number well over f...

A daring young matador made a triumphant return five years after quitting at the peak of his career, enduring a terrifying near-goring Sunday to win standing ovations, a rain of flowers and three trophies _ ears from bulls he had just slain.Rhythmic cheers of 'Ole!'...

Columns of yellow-brown smoke billowed from behind a mountain and flames shot from a high ridge before leaping toward us.This Greek village was in a ring of fire and so was I _ racing away from the blaze and approaching it to snap pictures, trapped...

Recently my unattached friend Katie told me that she had taken a trip to Tiffany’s, solo, to try on diamond engagement rings. I shot her a look. “But they’re just so sparkly!” she protested, deeply in lust. Before another friend’s bachelorette party, doing fact-?nding for...

Forbes magazine is out with its annual report on the business of baseball and the big news isn't that the New York Yankees would have broken even last year if they didn't have to pay A-Rod's salary.The Yankees are the loss leaders of major league...