International box office really used to be the icing on the cake. Now it is often the cake itself.

We've spoken with lawmakers and the governor's office, but we haven't been able to get this taken care of.

Even a sitting president who has a vice president running for office doesn't have a great impact on the way the administration behaves. The goal of the next three years is to repair the president's popularity and resolve the situation in Iraq to some decent outcome. ... If Bush leaves office in January 2009 with Iraq in chaos, nothing else will matter.

It's the wee, quiet families that are suffering, they're the targets, they're the easy targets - the Home Office knows where they are, they are the least likely to abscond and the least likely to put up resistance.

Properties give stable yields, unless there is office or retail glut.

She plopped it into my office and said she'd been saving for a cruise but there is no way she could go after all this,