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'We are asking even sex workers to join the cause, even if we have to pay them ourselves.' PATRICIA NYAUNDI, executive director of Kenya's Federation of Women Lawyers, on a campaign to get women to withhold sex to protest infighting in the coalition government

'We have yet to reach the depths of what he has done.' WILLIAM BRATTON, Los Angeles police chief, on John Floyd Thomas Jr., 72, whose DNA was matched to two 1970s murders; he is believed to have killed as many as 30 people

'Darn! And I was just planning a trip to England for their superior dental work.' MICHAEL SAVAGE, U.S. radio host, on being barred from entering Britain because of his remarks about immigrants and Muslims

'It was a really nice day. Then you hear a bang. Everyone looks up, and you see people flying through the air.' PETER VON DE VORST, Dutch journalist, after a driver plowed his car into spectators at a royal parade in Holland, killing seven

'Even though I am California's "top cop," 2 of my tires were stolen. No matter. I got 2 new ones and I'm rolling again!' JERRY BROWN, California's attorney general, in a Facebook posting after his state-owned Toyota Camry was ransacked

'Like clean pieces of paper that can be easily written or painted on.' KAING GUEK EAV, chief jailer for the Khmer Rouge, at his U.N. trial, referring to children used as prison guards by the Khmer Rouge

'I've asked for mine up front.' CAROL ANN DUFFY, on the 600 bottles of sherry bestowed on Britain's poet laureate. She is the first woman given that honor

Back & Forth:

Marriage

'What's happening today behind a front of bodily curves and female beauty is grave.' VERONICA LARIO, wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, publicly criticizing her husband for filling his Cabinet with beautiful women and using them as "pieces of costume jewelry" to attract votes. She later announced plans to divorce him

'Veronica will have to publicly apologize to me. And I don't know if that will be enough.' BERLUSCONI, on his wife, who previously rebuked him for his playboy ways

Military

'The special-forces guys, they hunt men. Basically, we do the same things as Christians. We hunt people for Jesus.' U.S. MILITARY CHAPLAIN, in a video posted on al-Jazeera showing a 2008 sermon in Afghanistan, where soldiers had stacks of Bibles in the local languages

'That specific case involved a soldier who brought in a donation of translated Bibles that were sent to his personal address.' U.S. military spokeswoman MAJOR JENNIFER WILLIS, saying the footage was taken out of context and chaplains were instructed to make clear to soldiers that they could not proselytize

LEXICON

Dracula Sneeze n.--

A method of sneezing used to prevent the spread of swine flu

USAGE: "California Schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell said that last week teachers reminded students that if they have to sneeze, to put their mouths into the crook of one of their elbows. 'The students started calling that the Dracula Sneeze, and we picked up on that,' O'Connell said." --Reuters, April 27, 2009

Sources: CNN (2); Washington Post; AP (3); BBC

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