I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always read more

I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always important and so I am glad we are ahead.

one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job.

one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job.

[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was read more

[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was a primary evacuation point for residents from the more southerly parishes -- counties -- of Louisiana.] So there were more people, ... and so there was more crime.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, read more

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- read more

Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,

It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much read more

It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much further along than anything I anticipated.

They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine read more

They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine — from Sweden and England and all kinds of places.

Luckily the disc was in the up position,

Luckily the disc was in the up position,

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I read more

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.