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"If you don't turn them off, they will go off." Long Island Power Authority chairman Richard Kessel, urging people to keep their appliances off while power was being restored after the blackout

"One night without electricity, and they are complaining." Ahmad Faris, a 12-year-old soft-drink vendor in Baghdad, on the blackout. Iraq has seen severe power shortages since the U.S. invasion.

"This man is a very big fish." Australian Prime Minister John Howard, on last week's capture of Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali. The man described as Al Qaeda's point man in Southeast Asia is believed to have organized the Bali terror attacks and helped plan others, including 9/11.

"The only thing that would satisfy us more would be to have Kaddafi's head delivered on a platter... and [to] let us all walk by it and spit on it." George Williams, former president of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, on news of a $2.7 billion settlement in the case of the Lockerbie bombing, ...

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