The staff is devastated. He was the kindest man, full of life, happy in his work. This is just heartbreaking.

The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

We're here to protest the budget. We don't have a margin that can support those kinds of cuts.

We're happy to have babies, period. The first of the New Year is a bonus.

(Johnson) was a young man who was overlooked. He had a couple four-year schools recruiting him, but he played at a higher level than those schools were. . . . I needed a two guard, but as he got going in practice, I saw his instincts were better for a point guard. He's been a blessing for us ever since.

Not at all. Don wasn't anything like Barney. He was a very quiet man, and polite. He was the type of person who encouraged everyone - he was just a darling man.