When you don't campaign on foreign affairs, you don't make an issue out of it, you don't create public support, you create problems for yourself down the road politically for sustaining an argument against the Hill for doing anything overseas.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Is worried about Grandma, not Grenada.

We were surprised that the company was not in a position to comment on a dividend policy or pay a final dividend. We would have preferred a policy statement even if it was conservative in nature.

With real-life foreign policy taking front and center, Gore gets pushed off the front page.

What do you call it when you take a city - the same city - for the third time? Success or failure?

The overlap was startling, really. There was a great deal of consensus on where to intervene.

The commentary on next year's earnings will disappoint but, obviously, reflects the extra interest costs and higher depreciation going forward.

It is a surprise in timing. People were expecting a restructuring of the assets some time before the end of the year.