You know to me, no news is good news. I'm glad he's feeling (confident). When he came back from training camp, where this fall I'd never seen him ski any better.

I continue to believe that locally, we continue to benefit from a positive bounce in shipyard-related news (despite) higher gasoline prices and other national news that might cause people to be cautious.

Mr. Miller is desperately seeking attention, and today's news conference is the latest attempt at it.

The good news is he was very lucky and he will be fine.

According to a news account last month, people leaving the Democratic National Convention asked a Boston policeman for directions. He replied, "Leave here - and go vote Republican."

The positive news is we appear to be making progress,