The Baltimore Sun

When it comes to dining, one is no longer the loneliest number that you'll ever be. Whether on a business trip or simply out for a night on the town,...

Like a mountaineer making a second assault on Everest, James Bamford has returned to the largest and most secret of U.S. intelligence agencies and brought back a book worthy of...

Bank, mutual fund and credit-card statements may appear a little fatter than usual when they show up in mailboxes in coming weeks. That's because, in addition to the statement and...

When Willie Morris died in August 1999, his friends, a group that apparently included every literary light in North America, gathered to celebrate his rich life and to mourn the...

The number of American mosques has increased by 25 percent over the last seven years, fueled by immigration, conversion and a higher-than-average birthrate in the Muslim community, according to a...

The latest DVD movies look great on Ron Morman's 55-inch television -- except for one glaring flaw. "It's those awful black bars above and below the movie," says Morman, a...

In the centenary year of his ascension to King of England in 1901 after the long reign of his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII's lasting contributions to Western civilization can...

Financial planners say clients often have the same questions, but the answers can be very different. One client may be better at dealing with risk than another, or one person...

Peggy Rambach, third of the four wives of the late Andre Dubus, himself a powerful writer and a tortured soul, is no dodger. That's starkly obvious from "Fighting Gravity" (Steerforth...

"Simplicity" is the new mantra in the decor domain. It means plain, as in spare: white sheets, unadorned dinnerware, curtain panels instead of drapes, sheer fabrics, neutrals dotted with a...