While the gain was included in operating results, it was clearly stated up front in the earnings press release, and management encouraged analysts to remove it from their earnings models.

I think this is going to get close scrutiny. This raises the bar as far as the nervousness [about regulatory approval] the companies should be feeling right now.

He should have stayed at home and had people bring the stuff people need. We've had enough press conferences. Instead of flying around for picture opportunities, he should have his butt up in Washington sending people to take care of business.

A surprising number of respectable people, which includes the press corps, diplomats, civil servants, and the military, too, were involved, to some degree or other, in both drugs and gold.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.