While we are hesitant to comment on the probability of this possibility, we do think that timing is everything and believe the company is better positioned than it has been in years to even consider this type of transaction.

It's taken people a long time to feel like the company has stabilized. They've come a long way in the last two years.

The first half is, I think, going to have an impact on the bonds. Those declines in the first half could be fairly significant.

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

There's still a possibility, and that's what we're playing for. This game felt really good. This was some of the best balance we've had in a long time. It's nice to win one of these games without Jason having to score 99 points.