It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is read more

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun read more

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.

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.

[ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancŽ pulled up about half read more

[ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP-] I didn't know what it was first time I saw it, ... My fiancŽ pulled up about half way in the driveway and shouted 'Quick! Get a camera.'

I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots read more

I knew they were going to double- team, triple-team me. I was missing shots that I would never miss. Shots that I have to take. Shots around the basket. . . . That was their game plan. They want somebody else to beat them.

Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.

Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.

Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there read more

Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there are risks on the horizon but not so material just yet.

It's an environment where it is very difficult to jump in.

It's an environment where it is very difficult to jump in.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.