I'm just a FORMER SAXOPHONE PLAYER who GOT LUCKY.

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud CHARGES against Richard Harriton, FORMER CHAIRMAN of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was HAPPY. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

I just didn't want to GET out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't THINK it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's GOT plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

The average American expends more time BECOMING INFORMED about choosing a car than choosing a CANDIDATE. But, then, the consequences of the FORMER choice are immediate and discernible.

My DAD PLAYED FOOTBALL, too, in the FORMER Yugoslavia.

Having served in the FORCES a positive when it comes to applying for JOBS. But we KNOW some former SERVICE personnel can find the transition difficult.

If those who are the enemies of INNOCENT amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and YOUTH, the former from the year, the latter from HUMAN life.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the LIVING, is to SEE that the debts against the latter do not exceed the ADVANCES MADE by the FORMER.

Woman is fine for her own SATISFACTION ALONE. No MAN will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the FORMER, and a SOMETHING of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Kate O'Hare is a FORMER SEAL and is currently in the FBI - we know that there are no WOMEN in the SEALs, but we THINK there should be.

Let me START by saying, I'm UTTERLY disgusted with the former members of the DEAD Kennedys.

I was MARRIED when I was in my early TWENTIES, and my former husband, an ABSOLUTELY LOVELY man, didn't get the writing thing.

I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. OBSERVING your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds is simultaneously fascinating and AWFUL but MAYBE that's just because I'm a former BIOLOGY teacher.

Trout is no journeyman. He's a former WORLD champion, SOMEONE who has a name and he comes to FIGHT.