We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.