I tell my parents, 'The university just raised a billion dollars,' and their jaws just drop. It's validation of what we already are and an investment in what we are going to become.

Based on further evidence, our geo-technical experts concluded that the digging will not be needed.

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Making it easier for people to travel throughout the metropolitan region includes giving them confidence about knowing how to use mass transit. And because thousands of people travel in and out of New York City every day to the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey, it makes perfect sense for us to take a broad, regional approach.

Jesse was a well-liked and respected friend and student. The university has informed me of the numerous, numerous students who have gone to take advantage of the grief counselors. That only indicates to me that Jesse was a very good human being and friend.

He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from his mother so I thought that was about enough for him to get through customs. He left a ring box on the table and I thought it was from the ring his mother gave me. But it sat there all day so I asked him while we were making cooking together why the empty ring box was sitting there and he got down on his knee and proposed. He had the ring in his pocket all the time.