I think it's important because everybody should be treated fair. Nobody should be treated on how they look or not. It doesn't matter what they look like. It just matters what they are like from the inside.

I was pretty happy about that. I outscored the big dude.

This is a huge, huge win for us. All four seniors have played all four years. We got to the regional championship last year and lost it. It was our goal to get here and win it.

People need to know about the person who saved black people's rights.

What operators should be doing ?- and what the standards bodies working in this area are encouraging them to do ?- is to create a policy architecture : a unified framework that embraces all the layers of policy needed in their organization.

The next shift is to an object-oriented form of distributed application that is Web-enabled and peer-to-peer -- and here's where the old types of middleware run out of steam. The new companies bubbling up in this area want to ensure they can underpin the new paradigm, and IBM obviously thinks it's best to buy one of the few hardware companies here than try and build something itself.