“My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so...” — Henry Louis Gates Quote

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of smaller Internet sites, and even gossipy chat rooms.

We're all risk takers, and we don't even know it. Nobody checks the air pressure in their tires every morning before they leave the driveway. Nobody gets out of the car and shakes a bridge before they drive over it to see if it'll hold them.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.