2005: Volkswagen Jetta: Once a Standout, Now Lost in the Crowd - New York Times

2005: Volkswagen Jetta: Once a Standout, Now Lost in the Crowd - New York Times: "While the last Jetta was a ho-hum mechanical package, the finely balanced proportions of its exterior design did set it apart. Rather than trying to convince onlookers that it was sexy or powerful, the Jetta's styling took its cues from high-end German appliances, looking as if it had been extruded from an injection-molding machine in one perfect piece, devoid of frivolous styling flourishes inside or out."

Michael Homan: One of the Millions of Hurricane Katrina Stories

Michael Homan: One of the Millions of Hurricane Katrina Stories: "It occurred to me that it was more complicated than concluding that suddenly the American government was forgetting these impoverished people, these descendants of the slaves who built New Orleans and this country. Instead, I realized that these poor people hadd been forgotten for hundreds of years."

United States of Shame - New York Times

United States of Shame - New York Times: "Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center."