So a D, an F. And I think since Newtown, you'd have to give him somewhere between a B+ and an A for effort.
I have asked him to etch "The Rock" -- the name his surf friends gave him -- somewhere near the board's tail.
In a recent interview, Mr. Kaufmann, the Russia director, told The Associated Press that the inspectoral assault sometimes gave him the feeling that "someone somewhere does not like us".
He had some [chasing] experience last year so his jumping's good, and the plan is to give him a racecourse gallop somewhere in the next few days.
"To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere," said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan's special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.
In the event Simon Gray lived for only nine more months, but felt relatively well during them, and what killed him - suddenly - was not the direct result of his drinking or smoking, but the rupture of the aneurysm, a fact which if, against his expectation, his spirit survives somewhere, will give him some ironic satisfaction.
Long before he became a bankable star with "Guys and Dolls," in 1992, and the 1996 revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," he trolled the aisles of the Drama Book Shop in Times Square, looking for parts he could persuade someone, somewhere to give him.
We gave them somewhere to come," she said.
"This place gave them somewhere to heal," Ms. Garrett said.
