The free dealing has allowed us to buy smaller shares that we would not normally have bought, because we'd have been worried about the dealing commissions and the percentage lost if we had to sell out.

A good steak sauce should enhance the flavor of the meat and not disguise it.

If you want to completely tear yourself away from your home, your family and all you've ever known; if you want to endure months and years of a Spartan lifestyle and a harsh disciplinary regime; and if you don't mind carrying out the most menial tasks with only the bare minimum of material, then by all means join the French Foreign Legion.

The basic law in this area is if you have a conflict between the charter and the general law, you follow the charter.

It's like saying if you take up golf you'll never be able to play in a golf tournament.

There's a lot of carbon stored in the soil. If the permafrost does thaw, as our model predicts, it could have a major influence on climate.

You raised a couple of questions at the end.

You name a county on either side of the Blue Ridge, and there was quite a bit of wind damage to the trees.

Actually, I think it's because of the open-hearted atmosphere, because that's what we really serve. Of course, our coffee is excellent, too.

The national case precedent says the appointing body can remove a member of a board they appointed with cause. It has to be some kind of malfeasance.