Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
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It's so great to have the contract done early so I can begin playing for Bridgeport. The Islanders have been so good to me since the draft, staying on top of my development in Erie and getting this deal done. I'm anxious to get on the ice with the Sound Tigers and show them what I can do.
The idea that men are God's children is one which cannot be conveyed to the Trobriand Islanders, since they do not think that anybody is the child of any male
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
I wish I did not have to be here today. I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best. However, it is clear that changes need to be made with the Islanders and, as owner, I am taking the responsibility of delivering the message.
Give the Islanders credit. They played hard. This is the best they've played against us.
Mr. Kumar has not been involved in the sports business operation process with the New York Islanders for several years.
Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.
It is clear that changes need to be made with the Islanders, and I am taking the responsibility of delivering the message firsthand.
There's no thought or concern about how Staten Islanders will get around.
That hasn't been a strength of ours this year, obviously. (Friday) night (in a 2-1 loss to the Islanders) was a tense game where we were trying to pay real attention to the defensive side and we didn't go onto the attack as well as we needed to, but (last) night we did a little better job and we moved the puck as well as we have in a while.
Rising energy costs not only threaten our economy and our state's competitiveness but also greatly impact the pockets of Rhode Islanders, especially those on fixed incomes. Everyone is feeling the pinch. Its imperative that we take action now to bring costs down.
It was just an off night. We have to put this behind us and regroup for Friday against the Islanders. We have a tough stretch of games ahead of us. We really have to get focused and prepared for those.
Minister MacKay, as you all know, has deep roots in Atlantic Canada and is very familiar with PEI and its provincial government. He will serve Islanders well in our new cabinet.
I've loved my four seasons with the Islanders. This is where I really developed as a player. It was a priority for me to stay an Islander. I'm very appreciative that management was as enthusiastic about making a commitment to me.
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny''