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"We ate dates."
SILJA STAEHELI,
19-year-old Swiss woman held hostage for six months by an Islamic radical group in the Sahara desert, explaining how she and 13 others survived

"It feels like a nightmare from which we are still hoping to wake. If only it were."
KOFI ANNAN,
Secretary General of the U.N., reacting to the bombing of its Iraqi headquarters that left at least 23 people dead and injured more than 100

"This is against the Iraqi people."
ABDUL RAHMAN AL-APSHAN,
35-year-old therapist who worked at a Baghdad hospital next to the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters, commenting on the Aug. 19 terrorist attack

"I don't think there ever was a cease-fire."
YONI PELED,
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, on a suicide bus bombing that killed 20 and injured 100

"It's a "stay tuned" situation."
MICHAEL OSTERHOLM,
director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, on an outbreak of illness near Vancouver that appears closely related to the SARS virus—and may have been spread by undetectable, asymptomatic carriers