The foundational pin holding the American rule of law together is that no man is above it.

Since reading “Great Expectations” by Dickens, the character Miss Havisham has represented a person who can’t let go of the past, nor the grievances they engender. She’d been left at the altar by a devious fraud that forever haunted her feelings on love. She left everything as it was on the day of her nuptial, including her wedding cake. Spiders and mice eventually ruled her home.

Curse. That’s the word the student newspaper at Florida Atlantic University used to describe the HIV status of a former student, who is positive.

Dear John, I have been with my husband for 17 years. We met when I was 25 and he was 30.