They have this blade that slashes through the rooster, pokes out eyes, punctures lungs and slashes into vital arteries. Blood spurts and the animals die in the ring based on blood loss. Whichever one gets hacked to death is the loser.

The issue is human cruelty. The purpose in slashing these birds to death in front of these crowds is for the gambling and entertainment of people.

The expression in her eyes was an expression that Byron had described to us as the look of hope. I couldn't stop myself from hugging her.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

I think Greenspan basically said the obvious, that long rates are too low and against his desire for the economy to grow ... His comments indicated that the Fed will remain in a tightening stance and that we should see further raising as the year progresses.

People have been concerned that Intel's margins are in contraction mode, so what they say about that will be noteworthy.