It is important for the lake area to be involved in this issue because it does impact our community here.

I was very discouraged. This is 2004, what do you mean - the first Latino student?

It is very evident that in areas like Incline or Kings Beach the majority of the workers are immigrant workers. They are the ones keeping it going, doing construction, snow removal, landscaping....

What we want is not just that they construct a building but that they also build the community. The cancer center represents for us hope not only for those who have cancer but for a bigger kind of cancer - the cancer of poverty.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.