The election results were a real shocker.

We were on the top of the hotel on Nob Hill, above Chinatown and North Beach, looking out over the night-bright city, all the way to the dark waters of the Bay.

Q. Before stepping down as Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair made a speech criticizing the British media, during which he singled out The Independent as a “metaphor” for what has happened to the news over his tenure, saying it is “well-edited and lively” but “is avowedly a viewspaper not merely a newspaper.”

that Earldom devolved, and the later, our foreremembered Philip, who left her inheritance to her only daughter Jone