If you change a lot of things at once, you can't be sure what made the difference.

The prescription-drug benefit is without a doubt the biggest change in the Medicare program since its inception and the biggest new program that Kaiser has had to implement as well.

The clear opportunity in doing something like The Lord of the Rings is that we can attract first-time concertgoers to Severance Hall. There are other ways to attract new audiences, and some used by other orchestras that don't, in my opinion, meet the standards of the Cleveland Orchestra, but Howard Shore's artistry and his music certainly meets our standards.

It's very different from a European tour. In Miami, our range of services will be the same as the range of services in Cleveland.

The out-of-pocket cost is usually about $50 to $55 a day (per inmate) that we pay to another county to rent the space, ... But we also have to pay for our officers' time to transport them and the cost of transport, like fuel costs.

At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,