Hannah Brandt is a forward for the U.S. Olympic team. Marissa Brandt, who was adopted as a baby from South Korea, used her birth name, Park-Yoon Jung, for the Olympics and plays defense for the combined Koreas.

Msgr. Aris does not believe those in religious life in Haiti are currently being targeted more than other groups. Violent crime in Haiti is high but hard to measure since most crimes go unreported.

Some of the poorest parts of the island remain cut off from the transportation and energy infrastructure.

Western journalists have been too easily swayed by misleading accounts circulated by those opposed to an entente.

Political unrest in and around the capital, Kinshasa, is just the latest malady to afflict the Congolese citizens.

We live in an age of opinion writers telling us that we live in an age of [insert sweeping generalization here].