International Perspectives.

"And they ask, 'Why do they hate us?'" Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, on the United States, which will host Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the White House next month, after another spate of alleged Israeli violence against Palestinians

"Osama bin Laden's underpants were hanging up to dry in the bathroom of his house outside Jalalabad. They were striped gray and black cotton boxers, with a label reading Angelo Petrico, a size XXL--large for such a lean-looking man." Richard Lloyd-Parry, columnist for Britain's The Independent, speculating on some of the objects he found at a now deserted hideout of Al Qaeda

"Thank God so many of these people are alive and well." NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau Chief Charles Campisi, on the city's World Trade Center casualty count, which has dropped to under 3,900

"Even Slobodan Milosevic deserves to have a trial in which he is considered innocent until proven guilty, and it's hard to find anybody who thinks that way." Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general and adviser to Milosevic, who will stand trial on charges of committing genocide

"You have to define what 'normal' is." Biology professor Rudolph Jaenisch, on reports that scientists created 24 healthy cow clones ...