The decline leaves us concerned. The income gap between rich and poor in New York is greater than anywhere else in the country. That's all the more reason for us to hope for a closing surge in contributions and in donors.

We've got a lot of options now. The weather's better in Western New York now, so we may train there. We'll take 10 days off and then decide where we're going from there.

[And Jack Curry of the New York Times said:] The trendy fall color in baseball is white, not red, ... And the painful year looming over the proud organization is 1917, not 1918. But, while the magical squad is the Chicago White Sox instead of the Boston Red Sox, and the drought without a championship is 88 years, not 86, the mission has not changed: win a World Series title. Finally.

New York is an extremely important market for us. It's the most attractive banking market in the US given its size and demographics. This gives us enormous strength in a very competitive marketplace.

If we adopted Valery, she is going to be happy with us because she knows New York, she knows her little friends and she knows who is family.

The New York Times brings us this hilarious item about Jonathan Klein, president of CNN's domestic operations: 'Mr. Klein said CNN is looking at the long term and trying to set itself apart as a news organization that wants to reach the serious news viewer, one who watches less TV news over all, and is younger than the steady audience for more tabloid news fare.' 'CNN: The network serious viewers don't watch when they're not watching TV'.