I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.

I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point read more

[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point seems extremely unlikely, ... But it may force Gore to commit some more resources here to really try to solidify his California Latino base.

Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights read more

Others, like many of us, like "the good Germans" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled "anti-Semitic."

It is going to make for a very long and emotional summer. As far as I'm concerned, when anything unusual read more

It is going to make for a very long and emotional summer. As far as I'm concerned, when anything unusual strikes fear in you is no way to live in the United States of America. But that is what is going to happen until any sort of comprehensive legislation is passed.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

For sure it is not to our advantage but they still have some good squad players,

For sure it is not to our advantage but they still have some good squad players,

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, read more

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

We'll see how things go in the morning.

We'll see how things go in the morning.