SIDNEY POITIER: The world I knew was quite simple. ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: That's screen legend Sidney Poitier describing his childhood on Cat Island in the Bahamas during the early 1930s.

The debate-night audience lashed out at the reporter who dared to ask Rep. Michele Bachmann whether she would be submissive to her husband as president, but the chorus of "boos" Thursday in Ames ...