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“We demand this trial be held again and a death penalty issued.”

Qais Aboud Ali Khutri al-Janabi

Head of a prominent Sunni clan in Iraq, where an Iraqi girl was raped and killed by ex-U.S. soldier Steven Dale Green. Green was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

“The weather just is not clearing up ...”

NASA Mission Control

Late last week, to the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis on stormy weather in Florida preventing a landing on the first try.

“It is important that victory becomes a victory for all Sri Lankans.”

Vijay Nambiar

U.N. Secretary-General chief of staff, urging the Sri Lankan government to try to heal ethnic divisions in the wake of the civil war.