One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa -- twins. And I'm buying J&J, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

The twins are now 11 and the little one is 5. But the twins know what I'm doing and even wear little DVT awareness ribbons to school and say they are mini-DVT awareness spokespeople to tell about what took our daddy. So I think it's been a healing thing for them to reach others and do something with all of this grief,

Our university sits in a most unique position because we have a long history of accepting and promoting diversity in our system. I don't want us to lose that mission, because that's our roots, our history.

Today there is a lack of sense of history about how diverse this decade was. There was incredible diversity working in different styles, working side by side.

China enjoys 5,000 years of history and cultural diversity that stems from its vast population, ... What we're presenting is a comprehensive sampling of the best that China has to offer, large and small ensembles from many regions of China, as well as artists of Chinese descent from the United States.

The merger creates a Goliath. What they have done is created the best of the best.