Intellect won, though not easily or decisively. Gradually, painfully, the upper-class colleges severed as amicably as possible their links with the least-qualified members of the prominent families.

In the last three months, the economic performance was disappointing for middle-class families and below expectations -- the results that have become the norm for the economy under President Bush.

We're looking at a very privileged class of people ? a House of Lords.

We moved from a mill town to a world-class biotech hub.

Before the advent of video games, bridge was a very popular college game. If they weren't in class, they were playing bridge, unless they were asleep.

We're sorry. We need to treat our visitors with class. But at the same time it's 105,000 people in a highly emotionally charged time frame. And there were a lot of Texas fans who had a great experience.