If it is to secure its long-term relationship with Iraq, the superpower had better adjust fast to the idea that Iraq is once again a sovereign country, one that has a powerful sense of wounded pride and some prickly sensibilities.

ECONOMIST: Iraq

But if there's a new wave of high-tech startups, don't be surprised when Microsoft--now a multibillion-dollar blue chip, albeit a still highly agile one--once again offers options or some variant of them to attract and keep capable people.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

But recently he got a phone call asking him to play in a Sevens tournament in Bulgaria with some old friends from the amateur era, and having caught the bug again, played in another one a couple of weeks later.

BBC: SPORT | Rugby Union | English | A Rugby World Cup winners' tale

Look, I don't doubt that -- there were some people, again, in the region that saw us too much on one side, and others watching the same statement saw us on too much of the other.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

All well and good, but what if, one distant day, the central bank decides to tighten monetary policy again by selling some of those bonds?

ECONOMIST: The Bank of Japan