[…] picking up a few essential supplies, writing post-cards, and watching our Cockney comedian soft-soap the sales-girls while he sticky-fingered a few personal necessities.

She also played a key role as dowager-regent during the minority of her son.

Soone as those glitterand armes he did espye, / That with their brightnesse made that darknesse light, / His harmefull club he gan to hurtle hye […]

A woman whose fiancé died on Sept. 11, Maria Barreto-Mojica, said she noticed that something about yesterday had seemed eerily familiar. “I looked at the sky this morning. It was so blue, just the same as it was that morning,” said Ms. Barreto-Mojica, 48, who was to marry fire lieutenant Dennis Mojica.