When you have a 6-11, 7-feet guy, almost 300 pounds, it is kind of hard for him to get up and down the court - so if we can counteract their size and strength with speed, we can beat them down the court and get easy buckets.

I was pretty shocked because he isn't really a small act in any way, so it was impressive to hear that he was going to be here.

We beat them two years ago. We know we can play with Kentucky or any other high-powered team as long as we come to play.

It is a strong endorsement. The question is: How relevant is it? Someone who was on the 3 rd Circuit for a decade and a half and has done a good job is likely to get this rating.

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.