We live in a crass, commercial world, with no faith or trust.

I do not propose to let an overweening, crass lieutenant thumb his nose at his commander and get away with it.

I'm showing it because they're not a sponsor, are they? because, in its own way, this is a crass version of our founding story.

Like all caricatures, this European view has had some truth to it. And, though Europeans have lamented that fate has allocated the real power in the Middle East to their crass cousins, they have nonetheless done pretty well there, not least commercially, simply by not being American.

I would just like to add a crass commercial I have a kids' book coming out in the fall called Marvel Sandwiches, a compendium of all the serious play that ever was, and it s going to be available in fine bookstores, crummy bookstores, tables on the street in October.

LONDON Headlines about migration can seem unbearably stark attacks on foreigners by neo fascists in Greece, dozens of domestic workers on death row in the Gulf, a crass and callous campaign by the British government to drive out migrants. Yet, despite persistent and even rising anti immigrant sentiment in much of the world, promising signs of a more enlightened approach to migration are emerging.