I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was read more

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the read more

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.

[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who read more

[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who have enrolled in classes at the University of Texas at El Paso.] I didn't want to lose out on a whole semester, ... They made it real easy for us to enroll in school.

I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and read more

I don't think the market can make a lot of headway until we get an idea of the depth and breadth of the profit recession.

Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires.

Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires.

With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly read more

With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer.

I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown read more

I couldn't be happier and more grateful that they happened to come to Los Angeles, which has been my hometown for so long. That they are now here is just too good for words.

Our goal is always to hold the other team to 15 points or less. To hold them to three is read more

Our goal is always to hold the other team to 15 points or less. To hold them to three is really unbelievable.

He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.

He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.