I was walking across the campus of Howard University with my boyfriend, a possessive pre-med student, who later revealed himself to be a womanhating thug, when I saw his older sister, also a Howard student, coming toward us, arm in arm with her boyfriend who was visiting for the big weekend.

The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.

Indeed, it may turn out to be a Trojan horse that finally allows conservative ideologues, who have unsuccessfully laid siege to Medicare since the days of Barry Goldwater, to breach its political defenses.

We went sailboarding, but it's just as hard as it looks.