I have trouble gripping the cell phone.

Many people believe the strip clubs are the last vestiges of mob influence. Some of them have a mob past, and some of them don't.

For us, it would be the final step toward status as a major American city. We're already a major city, but this would be the icing on the cake.

They are post-literate, twelve-images-per-second beings.

These principles have now grown stale and even archaic. Environmentalism is a set of values, not the Ten Commandments. As a value system, it has to compete for adherents.

It was never big enough, never spectacular enough and never unique enough to really be worthy of anybody's attention. The real estate's valuable, the building isn't.