We have several stories that are very important right now - politics in Germany, spectacular equity performance in Japan, and the U.S. interest rate story.

I'm pretty hot right now, because that was a pretty frustrating offensive performance.

(Yao) did all right, but it's not about individual performance in this league. It's team play and playing collectively. He's still trying to get back in game mode, and we know it will take a while before he's back at full strength. I thought overall, though, he did some good things, but he's still not at 100 percent.

Germany had a balancing function not only in European politics but in the European Union, between Britain and France, between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, and between Europe and the United States.

We had every right, and we were more than right ... just and moral to smash (Germany and Japan),

He's on his way to Germany right now, and then he's going to Maryland.