Alastair Cook, England's new one-day captain, has responded to being dubbed a "plodder" by ex-England skipper Michael Atherton by saying "it takes one to know one". Cook was England's star batsman ...

Richard Condon’s best known novel is The Manchurian Candidate, which Time, with its hopelessly perverse sense of the clever and the possible, labeled as black humor; its author was compared with ...