I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is read more

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

What the final product is going to be, I can't tell you. I can tell you he's hitting the ball read more

What the final product is going to be, I can't tell you. I can tell you he's hitting the ball well. His career with us has been pretty good. His bat is going to take him wherever he wants to go.

He's done enough this time in and will be spelled until the end of January and brought back for the read more

He's done enough this time in and will be spelled until the end of January and brought back for the jumping season next year.

I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going read more

I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.

Anybody who knows football knows that everything starts up front on both sides of the ball,

Anybody who knows football knows that everything starts up front on both sides of the ball,

The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving.

The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving.

The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living read more

The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.

I just fell in love with it.

I just fell in love with it.

As well as providing a more appropriate and reliable service than the loco-hauled trains that have recently worked the route, read more

As well as providing a more appropriate and reliable service than the loco-hauled trains that have recently worked the route, [the trains] will benefit from a refurbishment over the next 12 months to increase the number of seats and provide a more comfortable environment.