He said he just couldn't handle it anymore. It had been a real struggle with this little girl with the disabilities she had.

Wharton we've never beaten, we managed to tie them [this season]. Newsome we always struggle with them. It's kind of nice that they're on the other side of the bracket. As far as whether we feel that we have an easy route, we don't think that. We have to come out and play hard against whoever we face.

In the animal kingdom, it's a constant struggle. If you have an animal not happy with its position in the pack and it wants to move up in the food chain, it can perceive anybody who comes into that house as a threat.

That's the new struggle of our time, and we have to frame it that way to understand what we're contending with and why it's so important for us not to fail.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Maybe he, like me,
is engaged in the kind of unspoken rebellion
you don't want to perform too brightly
since you're never certain
anyone in your family will notice
your darkened eyes, skeleton shoes, tousled hair,
patchy attendance record.
You may be sacrificing body and soul
on a ghostly battlefield, fighting across a divide
seen by no one
but you.