[Book publisher] Tim O'Reilly has talked about the importance of architectures for participation. The value of building an architecture to allow participation was never more clear than reading (and responding!) to thousands of these emails. |
[Cost estimates are often difficult to come by and they are even harder to stick to.] I am learning that all numbers rise, so I think there is a good chance it will be more than four billion, ... Everyday we delay in sending it up it rises. |
[From Rome, NBC News correspondent Keith Miller said the eyes of the world could be felt as they were trained on Vatican City, and as a result,] it felt like the center of the universe ... one of the largest Christian gatherings in history. |
[Hastert said he'd given the White House control over the negotiations with Norwood.] I've given them carte blanche to do that, ... We need to get a bill the president can sign and we're working with the president to try to find that place. |
[If the Florida Supreme Court had merely interpreted state election laws instead of making them, Florida's post-election process may not have descended into] controversy, dispute and chaos, ... carefully enacted plan by Florida Legislature. |
[Indonesia called for international help Friday to combat the bird flu virus that has killed six people.] We know that bird flu is a very dangerous disease, ... The virus mutates easily ... and moves very quickly across national boundaries. |
[It is] such a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy, ... Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, 1 million additional smokers quit each year 33 million over time? |
[Joe Gibbs, the Redskins' coach and president, said last week that not re-signing Pierce was a mistake.] I learned a lesson from it, ... And I don't intend to repeat it in the future. So, I would say that Antonio has our respect, certainly. |
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[Later that day, Matthew and James Wells drove to Moscow.] They said they didn't come over with the intent to kill anybody, ... Both of the Wells brothers had played college ball and were going to try and intervene and diffuse the problems. |
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[Montgomery was doing just that. His false start was one of three before the race finally went off clean.] I heard the blocks move [on the false start], ... I was tense at the start. I knew to beat Maurice you have to beat him at the start. |
[Ms. Womack also shared an award for musical event of the year, a collaboration with George Strait on] Good News, Bad News. ... Last year I watched the C.M.A.'s on my couch in my pajamas. This year I'm in Alexander McQueen in the front row. |
[NBC had better hope so. After TNT's largely NBC-produced coverage of the first two rounds, NBC will begin its 10-hour daily coverage Saturday and Sunday at 8 a.m. ET.] It's crazy, ... You think you're doing 20 Roseanne Barr shows in a row. |