We really like the steady pace versus the bubbles that we have had in the past. We like moving from a state of irrational exuberance to a state of rational, healthy optimism.

That was something in the past we just took for granted, that everybody had a way off the island. I think (Katrina) has opened up our eyes definitely and given us a different perspective on dealing with the evacuation.

It is within that spirit that this meeting has taken place, ... We have over these past hours re-affirmed our commitment to these values. We have reviewed our common histories and shared experiences: The Bahamas accomplishing majority rule in 1967 and South Africa in 1994.

He looks more relaxed this year than in the past. He's a complete player. His aggressive style really helps him and the kids he plays aren't used to that.

We learn from past games if we get down [early] like that. We just have to keep telling ourselves that it's a long way to go in the game. We always believe we can comeback from any deficit.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....