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We believe that Family Worship Center is trying to avoid its obligations under the options due to the change in the real estate market. ... Which is particularly unfortunate since it is our understanding that LSU wants to use some of the existing space to immediately house physicians who would render medical services to people impacted by the hurricane.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Word of mouth needs to get out, and people need to understand we have a quality product.

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

We're still really young on the boys' side, ... We just have to be patient and we'll eventually get better. We're running a lot of first-year juniors and sophomores and we've got to get the experience and understand how to run those races.