Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence read more

Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence of his colleagues, Taft was able to steer important opinions away from McKenna until he was able to persuade him to leave.

Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on read more

Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on the same page with all of us. Just like Pedro [Martinez]. Pedro was used to doing his own thing, but you win 15 to 20 games every year, you've earned the respect of your teammates, and nobody is going to [complain] about it.

That ball to the outfield (Russell's triple) was the first real hard hit ball Taylor gave up. He just lost read more

That ball to the outfield (Russell's triple) was the first real hard hit ball Taylor gave up. He just lost it in the sixth and we had to make a change. Matt just wasn't comfortable on the mound, so we went to Bob.

They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.

They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.

I'll tell you. We were playing little bit to passively. We were a lot more aggressive in the fourth quarter. read more

I'll tell you. We were playing little bit to passively. We were a lot more aggressive in the fourth quarter. We've got to start playing passionately from the beginning.

By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident read more

By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident that we can continue generating solid cash earnings growth in 2001 and beyond, led by continued success in our retail store business.

Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be read more

Hopefully it'll be a guy we feel good about that can play in the Major Leagues someday. He'll probably be a little further away [than Phillips was].

Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... read more

Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on your point of view, ... they will have waited so long for so little and have been willing to spend a long, long time in the red.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.