“I have a feeling that Youngstown will be strong again. Compare downtown to a few years ago.

“I have a feeling that Youngstown will be strong again. Compare downtown to a few years ago. It’s been a great improvement with many investors. It’s coming together.”

Al Adi, Downtown Circle’s owner. Youngstown’s downtown will see several changes in the coming months as it continues to attract new businesses to an area that largely was deserted for years.

“The military ended up getting everything, and we got nothing.”

Lobna Darwish, an Egyptian activist and longtime critic of the military, after judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament and ruled his former prime minister is eligible for the presidential runoff election this weekend.

“A strong stench of dead bodies was in the air.”

Sausan Ghosheh, a spokeswoman for the U.N. observers who entered the nearly deserted Syrian town of Haffa a day after President Bashar Assad’s forces overran it as part of a major offensive to recover rebel-controlled territories.