It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

This team has been on a mission from the first game of the season. The scoring droughts that they may have had in past playoffs will not happen in Flip Saunders' offense, and I believe that they want to prove that they can win a title without Larry Brown. Also, the East is so weak that they should have an easy ride, at least to the conference finals.

There are certainly terrorist groups who have an interest in developing that capability.

This is a great opportunity to train the next generation of IT (information technology) professionals. They are the first line of defense.

(It) makes me angry that some jerk can walk in with a gun and do that to an innocent person sitting there. It's ridiculous.

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.