So I don't necessarily think that summer reading has to be something light, has to be something mindless" Two of Mark LaFramboise's suggested books involve animals.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

I wouldn't want to be his teammate. I think if I was a Lakers fan or Kobe was on my team that would be something I'd really look forward to as a sports fan.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

So I think if they get something done it will be more appealing to the moderate Democrats than to the liberals."

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"I am more than satisfied." "I cannot explain. It is more than I expected, because to meet the pope personally you have to be something special."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31