Let us now praise famous men, James Agee said famously. Journalism certainly does that. Probably too much, especially in a public relations age when you can become famous for being famous.

Once you think you"ve got the story, think again. Always think again. First, because you may have the story your sources want you to have. Second,

"Adeline Compton," a moving poem set to music, is prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook's homage to a memorable English girl who used to serve him air tea in painted tin cups in a gazebo in their boarding school many years ago while war raged across the world.