The future's not going to be the past, but it can be better than it would otherwise be. You're not going to redevelop everything, but a sterling project here will spin off a sterling project there, and in 30 years you'll see a vastly different community. It's going to take conversation to have it all make sense when it's done, and conversation is tough. But we're getting better at that.

[Former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage ,] tells anyone who asks that he is a serious candidate to replace Rumsfeld, ... miracle.

They had us (stopped) there but we didn't let it affect us.

A terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

That's the way we've been all year. Every time someone scores on us, we score right back.

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

We're delighted, it's unbelievable.

It's a mixed blessing for the Democrats.

We just don't need it here.