He is able to motivate a team as well as anyone I've seen. Any coach you hire should be competitive and intense, but his intensity is at a higher level. He just hates to lose, and he knows how to get the most out of his kids.

They were up in arms to make sure he won. If things aren't going well, he'd get on them and he's hard on them. But he makes them understand it's never personal. And when he sees them in the street, he loves them.

Some of the bad things that had been said -- people can say what they want to say. I don't agree with what was said. He had nothing to do with any of the geological problems up there. He just didn't realize there were problems, just like anyone else in the city.

After all, he created the most upscale residential district in the city of Kelso. It was, at the time, the only one of any high quality, and it lasted a long time.

I'd like to make a toast to St. Andrews.

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.