Basically we held the ball to shorten up the game since we were in foul trouble.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

That can't go on. We're inviting trouble if it does go on,

I never got in any trouble before and this was my fourth year being here. I was wrong in what I did, but I feel I should have been allowed to stay in school.