An interesting op-ed on Bernard Kerik, the new head of Homeland Security

The son of a prostitute who was "tortured, beaten, brutalized and used," abandoned by his father when he was 2 years old, raised by a violent stepfather with a criminal past, Bernard Kerik began stealing and dropped out of high school. . . . What saved Mr. Kerik from a life of crime was a passion for the martial arts . . .