We expect Electronic Arts to have a compelling holiday lineup versus its peers, which should be a catalyst.

Excluding guidance, 4Q negatives were hard to find, in our view.

We expect Amazon, eBay and Expedia to continue to invest in technology and content in 2006 -- which could pose a near-term risk to 2006 street margin expectations.

We expect further escalation of Internet technology competition in 2006 to $2.7 billion up from $1.9 billion in 2005.

With more time spent in their mother's presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie's own facile mental questioning and creative drive, paired with her physical rigidity, all the more oppositional, and, how they dance around serious subjects, laughable.

It had elements of Miles Davis and Billie Holiday and little horn pieces. The way he combined that, I was like, ?Hmm. I bet he would get where I?m trying to go with this record.? It was taking a chance. God knows if he would even do it because it was kind of his first time, I think, even venturing into the ?pop? world. I knew that it would be a different and new thing for him.