Date certain
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced that he will resign sometime in the next 12 months, but he refuses to say exactly when. Perhaps Mr. Blair is taking a page from his ally, President Bush, in that setting a date for his departure would send the wrong message to his enemies.
New rule
Observed on campus: people taking the elevator to go up one floor – or worse, down – forcing the elevator to stop at every floor and delaying those who need the elevator to scale multiple floors.
So with apologies to Bill Maher, new rule: no more taking the elevator up or down one floor. The obesity epidemic in this country is bad enough without people refusing to expend the energy required to take one flight of stairs to get where they’re going.