Ever since winter officially began last week, the weather in the Northeast (and across much of the country) has gone the other way. It's not that we're having a heat wave in the Northeast, but we are certainly in a different regime than we were earlier in the month.

Now we're back to square one. The whole idea was to get some kind of cooperation.

We recognize that military action in Iraq, if necessary, will have adverse humanitarian consequences. We have been planning over the last several months, across all relevant agencies, to limit any such consequences and provide relief quickly.

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

The man has just come into the country to face a serious charges of double homicide and there's been nothing but media attention, playing out all the ... what they believe to be ... the facts. I suspect that everybody listening to this broadcast, everybody's who read about him, and everybody who thinks about him tomorrow, has already formed an opinion about his guilt and not one person has heard one fact or one bit of evidence.

We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.