These are the 'who's who,' and they keep giving parties and they go to each and every party and if they're not on a list for some party, they go into a deep depression.

Giving money to a candidate or a party that is sure to lose is not as politically useful as giving money to a candidate or a party where your contribution might make a difference. Catching up when you're the party out of power is always harder.

Bush knows that Berlusconi will lose, and is giving him a farewell party. This new legislature may be stillborn, and we may be in for a period of political instability.

At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.