This program has marked the first time in our history that Africans have been able to immigrate by choice in significant numbers.

I'm a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, ... The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous environmental activism under Theodore Roosevelt, then went through a drought in the '20s. We had another resurgence in conservation interest in the '30s, hit a lull in the '50s, then had a highly active period in the '60s and '70s. We're in one of those down periods again, but I'm as certain as I can be that we're getting to the end of this period and headed toward a new era of conservation and concern.

Bush may be aiming now for the political choice - a choice that's calculated less to mold the Supreme Court jurisprudence, and more to mold his political fortunes and those of his party.

It's an important structure with a lot of human history, and a lot of crisis history and a great architectural history. There's some great uses for preserving and reusing the building.

I'm sure that history will justify our choice.

There had to be a moment when he was compromised. He would have had to make a choice between living with the consequences of what they were going to expose about him or deciding to enter into a pact with people who had inflicted so much suffering on his own community, his friends, himself.