[''Medved did not attend. He lives with his wife and three children in Seattle, where he hosts a conservative talk radio show.] I had the invitation on my desk and couldn't decide. Eventually the date came and went, so I guess that was the answer, ... Saturday at 6 p.m. is the heart of the Sabbath. It just didn't seem like the right thing to do, and I didn't want to spend the weekend away from home and my kids. |
Dick Cheney (1941-) |
[After I spoke with Penn, I repeated his assessment of the backlash to Podesta, whose reach into all aspects of the progressive world - from bloggers to members of Congress - makes him as knowledgeable about the party's crosscurrents as anyone in Washington.] The D.L.C. incident is over, and it isn't particularly meaningful, ... But in the long run, if you believe what Mark believes, it will get you in trouble. |
[Angela arent the first people to put graphic sex talk over backing tracks call em Peaches without the beard, Fannypack with a fanny-hole obsession, Hawnay Troof with better spelling. But Boston can be a very uptight city. So when they first hit the stage, the crowd usually falls silent.] When we have to play two songs sometimes people just stare the whole time, ... But when we play a whole set people go crazy. |
[But a P/E ratio is not to be dismissed completely.] It's one of a number of things, ... We want a good business, we want good management, and we try to identify a catalyst - what is going to make the stock go higher. Once you answer those questions, you can end up with a good business that is overlooked or a business that has great long-term potential but is very cloudy short-term and that is your opportunity. |
[China, the host of the talks, and South Korea said that the deal was far from dead. But with the contentious issues of inspections, disarmament and the timing of concessions still to be decided, the negotiators still face months, if not years, of work.] This is clearly progress, but it is just a first step in a long march. The devil will be in the detail, ... Anyone who thinks it is over is very much mistaken. |
[Cook:] The President's numbers were already sliding due to Iraq and gasoline and this just is another big hit. ... To repair perceived damage over the initial federal response Washington is throwing billions at the problems. Plus the administration's top officials have become frequent flyers to the disaster zone and the President has even been the face on smaller details with his how-to-guide on reaching FEMA. |
[He was embraced with much enthusiasm by the south-city rockers.] He was comfortable among anybody, ... That's why it was always hard for me to remember that he was mentally ill, because he was so socially graceful. He could be disgraceful, too, but if you put him in any situation, he'd always find someone to talk to, always seemed to be interested in what they had to say, always had something pertinent to add. |
[In his foreword, Rainie praises the work that led to this book.] Of all the things we have done, nothing has taught us as much and made us think as expansively as this effort, ... We are very grateful to Janna Quitney Anderson, her Elon University colleagues, and their students for their dogged, shoe-leather work in tracking these predictions downand for the synthesis and analysis Anderson shares in this book. |
[Taproot is offering fans the chance to create their own video for] Facepeeler, ... With all the new technology available today, some of the most exciting video footage and art is coming from people outside of the traditional 'biz.' We're excited to give some of the up-and-coming talent out there the platform to show off their skills, and we can't wait to see how many interesting ways our song gets interpreted. |
[That North Korea must completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear program before receiving any benefits. In a July 13 interview with South Korea’s SBS Television, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated these conditions: North Korea, she said, must] make a strategic choice to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and its nuclear programs ... in the context of these [six-party] talks. |
[The album artwork was created by comic book artist Greg Capullo and producer/director/artist Todd McFarlane.] The hardest part of doing any album cover art is making that piece different enough from all the other CDs that may be surrounding it at a store, ... I believe that Greg Capullo and I have delivered an image that will be evocative and inspiring. Much like the music that Disturbed has unleashed upon us. |
[The father of Sarah Williams, a Scottsbluff, Nebraska, woman, had four tickets on the 45-yard line for the University of Nebraska's football games.] He used to say he wouldn't be cold before somebody would ask for those tickets, ... His funeral was on Wednesday, and that afternoon the phone rang and a guy said, 'I'm sorry about your dad. By the way, what are you girls going to do with those football tickets?' |
[The project is ongoing, with a phased implementation timetable.] We look at our entire market data framework as constantly evolving - there are newer types of securities and newer groups always adding to it - so it is not necessarily something that will ever be fully completed, ... If anything, it will just get more groups attaching to it, or attaching to a system that is fed by this security reference system. |
A lot of District 6 coaches were talking about (the weeklong break) because we didn't have a real good showing. We looked a little bit flat. Trevor and Eric didn't really wrestle as well as they could have. Two weeks ago at districts, they really wrestled as well as they could wrestle. Today, it looked like they weren't quite at that level. It might have affected us a little bit. I'm not sure. It's hard to say. |