"To be honest, I don’t know much about Tennessee Tech but we’ve heard nothing but good things."

But it's also been a divisive distraction in the city, and one that is ---- if we're to be completely honest ---- unlikely to change a darn thing.

It’s time to be honest with Tennesseans and admit that we can fund education this year AND cut the sales tax on groceries.

"We've heard nothing but good things about the Mellow Mushroom, and we're glad they're coming to town."

Attorney General Gonzales, who is the person who should be resigning, had nothing but good things to say about McNulty.

Lindsay Lohan is getting rave reviews for her acting in ‘Georgia Rule’ and the producers of the film have nothing but good things to say about the actress.

An 11-year-old female should hear nothing but good things about her appearance, even if it is not 100 percent accurate.

People lucky enough to have seen test screenings earlier this year have nothing but good things to say about the film. Expect this movie to jump the shark.

Try your hand at running teams and building companies. If you’re good at it, the money will come. Making big money is not much of a life goal. "I typically find rich people boring, to be honest," he said.

Holly, conceding something in her answer, said, "I'm not going to be honest with you, so I'll say myself."

He blamed his behaviour on the death of his beloved mother, Lesley, in 1997, saying: "I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest."

To be honest, Greg, I’m still not sure I understand why Pam left with Roy that night. But I digress.

From time to time Suzanne comes up with ideas. She's a master at tracking down weird and important stuff on the internet. She passes tips on to me and (if they are good) I use them and take full cre... [ Read More (2.2k in body) ]

“Paul Richman is widely recognized as an authority in patent licensing and his reputation as an innovator is well-known. His experience and knowledge will be invaluable in guiding the Company’s strategic direction and monitoring Wi-LAN’s progress as we move forward. ”

Purdy's has earned a reputation as an innovator in the chocolate business -- developing a line of award-winning truffles; the ice cream bar dipped in chocolate and nuts; and Purdy's layer mints, for which Charles himself developed the technology.

Mr. Stringer has been counting on PlayStation 3 to become a global hit to help restore the company’s reputation as an innovator and keep ahead of inexpensive Chinese rivals.

A leapfrog may seem unlikely, given Google’s reputation as an innovator, but its diversification into so many fields beyond web-searching might yet cause it to stumble.

“I want the commission and the town to stay in the game as we move forward.”

As long as you stay in the game and don't get wiped out, you'll always have the chance to make huge profits.

The longer Bangladesh deny them and stay in the game, the more likely India are to get frustrated and Bangladesh's chances of causing a big upset will only get stronger.

And we've seen a tremendous degree of coherence and a tremendous degree of support for these efforts, as we move forward in the Security Council and as we move forward with the broader international community and the IAEA.

"I am very pleased with what the government plans to do as we move forward to ensuring that we can live up to our mandate which is to prevent illegal immigration, poachers and all these things from happening down there in the south."

"We are building Twitter in a new web application framework called Ruby on Rails, which means we are solving new puzzles as we move forward which we share with the developer community."

"The data from the survey will be extremely useful as we move forward to develop programs and services to end homelessness."

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I was going to write about fashion and art and whimsy (and death and depression and cancer) inspired by the obit page, but then I read something really scary and important on The New York Times front page.

The really big question, an urgent avenue for investigation, is what exactly the National Security Agency was doing before that night, under Mr. Bush’s personal orders.

Is more what we really need?

In my opinion not.

But running spies is not the NSA's job. Listening is, and more listening is what the NSA knows how to organize, more is what Congress is ready to support and fund, more is what the President wants, and more is what we are going to get.

He first thanked Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia whose aide was arrested after trying to carry loaded weapons into the Russell Senate Building, for providing security at the Hilton. He then expressed whimsy over what life was like more than a year ago, when his approval ratings were in the 30’s, his Supreme Court nominee had been withdrawn, and his vice president had gone hunting and shot a friend.

Confronted with a blank surface, he will cover it with scenes of anti-authoritarian whimsy: Winston Churchill with a Mohawk, two policemen kissing, a military helicopter crowned by a pink bow.

While some adults may shake their heads and dismiss such an event as typical anti-establishment "kids stuff," the truth is Saturday's event was no fleeting flight of anti-authoritarian whimsy—the students have worked their butts off to earn their stripes as "peaceniks."

Entire scenes are sabotaged by whimsy.

As Linden Labs' Philip Rosedale, the confab's most mesmerizing speaker, assuringly put it, all media breakthroughs started not with a clear-cut business plan but with "whimsy."

When I entered the Chinoise Tea Pavilion, "I Feel Good" was playing, James Brown’s muscular funk an odd counterpoint to the busy Orientalist whimsy.

Kill Bill is no orientalist whimsy.

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The other day while watching the evening news, it crossed my mind that "the world is going to hell in a handbasket." I don't know what a handbasket is, other than the obvious possibility that it's a small basket that is easily carried. I'll bet they collected eggs in a handbasket on the farm way back when my father was a child. But I don't know the significance of going to hell in one.

Welcome to Heaven in a Handbasket. Our Gift Basket Business is for sale!!

" 'Hell in a handbasket' poses one of the most perplexing problems that has crossed our desk in years."

The woman ahead of me in a supermarket checkout line wrote a check for three bananas. I was appalled. "No wonder the country is going down the drain," I told the children that evening as they settled in front of the TV to watch "Miami Vice." "You mean to hell in a hand basket," said the oldest child as he rose to refresh his bourbon.

Neither side now cares a fig ... and would send them all to heaven in a hand-basket.

Hundreds of Lodi teens will gather tonight at this year's prom to carouse and dance, but they better not be drunk and they definitely shouldn't "back it up." ... "No wonder this whole town is going to hell in a hand basket."

"If I was being taken up to heaven in a hand-basket I would step out of it, for the delight of this."

"Everything has gone to hell in a hand basket, and we got stuck holding the basket."

"It's a little odd for Boivin, who will have both a child and a grandchild simultaneously, but people wrap their heads around these things." "... vague concerns that society is going to hell in a hand basket, I don't think are good enough [to block the transaction]."

I always value reader interaction, although some of you are more gracious than others. You all come from the same demographic; were I to hazard a guess, I’d say your average age was close to 75. There's a lot of talk about World War II and the world going to hell in a h... [ Read More (1.6k in body) ]

It's true. Well, stories have to come from someplace, yes? Anyway, this blind man did pay a visit and even spent the night. But there all similarities end. The rest of the story was cobbled up from this and that, naturally."

I think of past nighttime souvenirs (memories): underground swing dancing; cooking cobbled-up meals like quesadillas; breaking into Sacré-Coeur's step-lawn ...

In the old days, parents cobbled up homemade costumes for their Little ones.

Clauser's offering was a bulbous-bowed design that is the least radical of a whole series of wonderful ideas he has cobbled up on his computer.

It looks like a stretch model of the space shuttle cobbled up out of junkyard parts.

On Thursday night, a New Jersey man named David L. Smith was arrested and charged with spreading the virus. New Jersey authorities said he was definitely not "VicodinES,'' but added that investigators think he cobbled up Melissa from a witches' brew of different viruses, one of which came from VicodinES. Hence, apparently, the telltale GUIDs said everything about the original document and less about its later permutations. New Jersey authorities said "Melissa" was apparently a reference to a topless dancer from Florida.

Bush has said he looked into Russian leader Vladimir Putin's soul and found a friend in the man he nicknamed "Pootie-poot." Apparently, if this conference is any guide, Bush found in Putin a model for authoritarianism. But even the old KGB chief couldn't have cobbled up such an absolutely meaningless discussion of the serious economic problems this country faces.

"I'm concerned about how they've cobbled up history."

Certainly it is the case that elsewhere in the world, as well as elsewhere in time, mankind has been content to fashion written languages in the form of pictographs, hieroglyphs and the like; the age-old use in Western Europe of words cobbled up out of alphabets -- words that are mere tokens, valueless unless they happen to retain some onomatopoeic ... [ Read More (1.3k in body) ]

Let me turn first to the Catholic side of the house. We'll come back later to the Fine Gael side of the house; eventually we'll also get to the Fianna Fail side of the house.

To lure customers to higher-speed services -- and keep them in the AOL tent -- the company wants to offer splashy content such as movies and music. But the Time Warner side of the house worries that releasing its valuable assets online could open the door to unauthorized use, diluting their value.

"We're on both sides of this," acknowledges Joe Cantwell, AOL Time Warner's vice president for broadband affiliate marketing. But Paul Kim, an analyst at Kaufman Brothers, a New York investment bank, says the company is straddling the fence while it waits for the murky issue of digital piracy to clear up.

Over on the hip-hop side of the house, every third artist is starting his own label. That's smart business.

I’ve worked with every big name in Toronto, from Anabolic Frolic, Silver1, Frisky, D-Minus, and Tyco, to Capital J, Rez-Q and Doublecross on the jungle side of the house.

The seven regional RBOCs had a need for design and development capability, so a goodly portion of the Bell Labs staff moved from the AT&T side of the house to the operating company side of the house, and became known as Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). That didn’t work too well.

I'm new to the web host and ISP side of the house. Got any advice? "Memorize polite phrases when a client blames you for their problems and yet you have to fix it anyway."

Meanwhile, Black Rod and Garter have moved to the spiritual side of the House ...

"Having our one aggressor squadron brings stability and consistency to the red air side of the house," said Capt. Ron Strobach, the 353rd CTS team chief.

"She has seen things on the enlisted side of the house that she hopes to improve."

One of the reasons some BI pros seem leery of PM is that it mostly originated on the financial side of the house.

"Men, on the other hand, take care of the technology side of the house."

"As the digital era continues to alter the industry, we’re seeing the walls between previously disparate functions beginning to crumble as the strengths of IT are increasingly relevant and needed in the creative side of the house," said Gabriele Di Piazza, managing director, media and entertainment, communications sector, Microsoft.

Computerised newsroom systems greatly improved the situation, at least for the text side of the house.

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Another restaurant dinner with my boring girlfriend, another lecture about how I never really listen to whatever she’s yammering on about.

But how can I listen — how could anyone? — when across the room, alone at a table, reading the newspaper and nursing a glass of white wine, is a silent confection like you?

Four Short Crushes

At the end of the day, he remembered thinking, "I can't believe I found all those answers in one place."

I mean, at the end of the day, is this a great language — or what? I mean, it's a language to die for.

At the end of the day, I, like everyone else, just sidestepped the helpful knowledge, eager to continue fucking up. No one ever learns lessons. You just smile and continue bullshitting. That’s the American way.

Priest recognizes the barriers women have conquered but suggests that even the most successful professional woman wants a man at the end of the day.

"At the end of the day, nobody is above the law of physics." [ Before lunch, however ... ]

Some people would argue that working at Google is more exciting, but [Google employees] are working incredible hours. And at the end of the day, you have to ask, ’Is that a good deal?'

At the end of the day, we all pile into each other's hotel rooms ...

At the end of the day diversification is what matters most.

"Every race has its good and bad. At the end of the day it's not what they look like, it's about what they do, their actions."

At the end of the day, when I’m old and decrepit, I can give it to my grandkids and say, ‘here, this is what your grandpa used to do.’

And at the end of the day we were proud of what we did.

There are not that many guys who see it on as consistent a basis. At the end of the day, I love to get sacks, but if I don’t, as long as my teammates are getting the benefits, I’ve got to swallow it ...

Furthermore, at the end of the day, you’ll be able to say with conviction that you left all that you had on the floor.

Answers may vary, but one thing is for sure, there is no escaping the fact that at the end of the day, this is just another popularity contest.

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Violence in Baghdad was modest on Tuesday, with several people wounded by mortar shells and gunshots. However, 25 bodies were found. In Ramadi, in Anbar Province, security forces found 17 bodies buried at a primary school.

More than 200,000 people have died in Darfur and 2.3 million have been uprooted from their homes, largely by repeated attacks from Arab militias supported and equipped by the Sudanese government.

If a band remakes the song after it has ended its contract, it can retain ownership of the new version and license it itself without having to share the rewards with the record label. Now two of the musicians behind the band Wang Chung have hatched a plan that might seem even more absurd than the lyric "everybody Wang Chung tonight." More than two decades after the song "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" became a smash hit, they are recording it again.

"We have intercepted weapons in Afghanistan headed for the Taliban that were made in Iran," General Pace told reporters.

A few more billion won’t draw that much attention from Congress or taxpayers.

"We heard the much-ballyhooed spring offensive that the insurgents were going to make, and if there is an offensive -- I am confident, I say and believe -- we were first out of the block. What we did in effect was launch a spoiling attack."

"In some ways, the drag from housing is still ahead of us."

"We believe that downtown L.A. is for real and not just a flash-in-the-pan trend."

It starts in a mysterious room where a shaman figure known as the Alchemist undresses blond female twins, removes their false fingernails and jewelry and shaves their heads.

"It’s funny, it’s silly, the ridiculousness of having asked so much of celebrity."

"Moral exhortation doesn’t change people’s behavior. Prices do."

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At least nine deaths in five states ... no immediate estimates of its damage, which seemed likely to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. And it was not over.
"Just the magnitude of the devastation is always shocking and hard to absorb," the governor said. "When you see the folks, you see the devastation in their eyes."

... walking alone across a post-apocalyptic America, cold, dark and strewn with corpses and ash ...

"But I have to ask this: Why does AA feel that female travelers need things explained to them that male travelers don’t? Are we that dumb? That inexperienced in the ways of air travel?"

The big problems, these and other experts say, are prevailing images of what computer science is and who can do it.
"The nerd factor is huge," Dr. Cuny said.
"They think of it as programming," Dr. Cuny said. "They don’t think of it as revolutionizing the way we are going to do medicine or create synthetic molecules or study our impact on the climate of the earth."

"Humans can’t do it," Dr. Matsuzawa said. "Chimpanzees are superior to humans in this task."

People used to worry that the world was full of secrets; now it’s possible to wonder whether there are any secrets left.

But some renters have very clear ideas about how they want to live. And they will not let a lease or even market-rate rents get in the way. To them, sinking $5,000, $30,000, even $100,000 into their rental is money well spent.

"We were thinking, ‘How can we demonstrate to people just how long it takes to make a really good cheddar?’"

"By letting them feel part of something bigger, we give them strength."

The rockets, called al-Quds-1, or Jerusalem-1, "have moved into the phase of military production with an advanced degree of range and accuracy," said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq.

"We are not in a crisis, that’s for sure." In a crisis, "people don’t know what to do. People’s hair is on fire. Confidence is challenged. We’re not there."

The inclination and ability of young doctors to speak up is hampered by the hierarchies in teaching hospitals.