The (department) and the Department of Fish and Game have essentially ignored the requirements of the California Endangered Species Act.

It's a race against time over whether the Bush administration will be able to administer the act more sensibly so that people do not get so angry that the act will be overthrown by court or rewritten or substantially amended by Congress.

I don't know of any evidence that the gas in the mines works. It's the act of traveling to special places. A week off the job, away from home and rest and travel can make it work.

If the ministers fail to act on what is an unmistakable demand from the world's peoples, they could well this week have set in train the beginning of the end of the WTO.

When you are in the public, you can't act as if you are private. You are only private when the door shuts behind you.

During the Clinton years they didn't do this. It disappointed me that they would be using precious resources to act like a bunch of bullies.