Who your bishop is matters too much, affects too many people.
Who the mayor is matters, and how he or she goes about their business matters too.
In the N.B.A., perhaps more than any sport, how tall and how heavy, or light, a player is matters.
The detail, horrendous though it is, matters less to me than Labour's willingness to destroy libel reform.
Between start and finish, then, we may concentrate on what he says and who he is, matters made more intense by our knowing he is doomed.
Presumably, what your religion is matters as much as whether you are religious: has anyone theorised about a Catholic work ethic?
It is matters of degree, a point here and there: a second serve that jumps up with more spite or just hanging in a rally.
Which it is matters quite a lot.The second is that the kind of industrial-scale counter-insurgency and stabilisation operations that America has spent trillions of dollars on over the last decade are simply unaffordable and cannot be repeated.
When asked if Mr. Bush's command of the issues -- and particularly his occasional difficulty articulating his own positions -- was a legitimate issue, Mr. Lieberman said, "My feeling is, matters of that kind, the American people should reach their own judgment".
It is hard to imagine that four decades ago, in early May 1971, fires were set and windows were smashed in the far reaches of Brooklyn in protest of cuts to Medicaid and other social programs, when so often now it is matters of lifestyle and taste that inspire our most expressive displays of contention and ire — our quaint revolutionary gestures.
So the launch, such as it is, matters.
