I have notified everyone I will no longer be participating in Christmas ceremonies. My decision has shocked friends and relatives, to say the least. After

The changing peculiarities of Christmas took a turn for the absurd this year. But before getting into that let me recount what happened the other

A chance meeting, some two years ago, of an Iranian scholar who, as fate has it, now lives in Helsinki, Finland, introduced me to an

We came to America in 1974. It was the Summer Nixon quit. I was only twelve, but the television images of a president in disgrace,

By all accounts, this was a most improbable game. It took six games and countless heartaches and let-downs before Iran pulled itself up from the

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