"The appeal we're now making is in rehabilitation. That really means rebuilding water systems,

"The appeal we're now making is in rehabilitation. That really means rebuilding water systems, toilets, livelihood in agriculture for people whose farmlands were buried in mud."
Corazon Soliman
Social Welfare secretary of the Philippines, where recent flash floods and landslides in the northeast have killed hundreds of people.
"I was convinced that I was made for this job. (But) I'm not going to lose my identity for a job."
Fatima Talbi
A French woman of Arab descent who took on a name that "sounds French" to see if it would improve her prospects of getting a job. She got an interview, but wasn't hired after she revealed her real identity.