They got a little comfortable. They hadn't been handed a loss in league so they didn't know what it felt like. It was a good wake-up call.

We pretty much let them know that if they get the league's top seed there's a great possibility of getting to the second round.

I don't know if the girls kind of expected an easy game or what. They're pretty upset with how they played, but they know they did a very good job this season.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

[While Hatch blames the loss on last-minute opposition whipped up by President Bill Clinton, the White House differs.] What really cost Senator Hatch, ... was the leader and his party indicating that this was a deal-breaker and he would pull the budget resolution down if the Kennedy-Hatch amendment passed.

If you are an animal lover like me, the loss of a pet is as devastating as the loss of a person. Let me tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, our pets will be waiting for us on the Other Side.