Nothing we heard at yesterday's meeting undermines our conviction that the new AT&T will outperform its smaller peers and the market in 2006.

The human wreckage in this case is extraordinary, ... It spans everything from acquittal to conviction to death when you really think about it.

The consumer segment is a cash-cow business. The cable companies threaten that cash cow. If the Bells did nothing, in all likelihood that cow would be slaughtered.

The empire-building continues. He has a track record of gobbling competitors at premium prices.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum

President Thabo Mbeki will meet with the UN secretary-general within the context of South Africa's conviction that the multilateral system of global governance remains our only hope in resolving current challenges facing the international community.