This odd way of looking at the world appears commonplace in both parties: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney killed a hundred weapons programs in the midst of a recession, and the Obama Administration did much the same thing at the height of the more recent downturn.

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When he tapped his volunteers on their chests at the same time as he tapped the air at chest-height below the cameras, they reported feeling that the core of their identity inhabited the camera's position.

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As she bounds through the grass with the Great Danes and the Bernese Mountain Dogs, I believe that there was never a dog so popular and well adjusted as mine (and yet realize at the same time that this is the height of my own particular brand of insanity).

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Mr. Schneider points out that, at 5-foot-7, he is exactly the same height as Napoleon.

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But Oshkosh made the same kind of mistake that many other well-run companies made at the height of the sub-prime housing boom, buying deep into the construction equipment sector at the top of the market and then suffering a staggering collapse in demand that impaired its capacity to meet debt obligations.

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He gave that up at the height of the recession, but says he can do pretty much the same dazzling look with crystals.

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About the same time Haney came on board with the NABC, the great Jimmy Valvano was at the height of his fight with cancer.

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