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-#include virtual="/time/asia/magazine/2003/0818/thisweek.txt"-->"You do your job and you do it well or else you're out and it's hasta la vista, baby."

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER,
actor, borrowing a signature line from the second Terminator movie, announcing his intention to run for California Governor in the upcoming recall election

"If the support is there, I am willing to go the distance. If not, I will fade into the sunset."

LARRY FLYNT,
founder of Hustler and self-proclaimed "smut peddler who cares," joining the same race in California

"We will never surrender to terrorism."

SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO,
top Indonesian Security Minister, in response to last week's hotel bombing in Jakarta that killed at least 10 people and injured some 150

"Burn, burn the Jews."

AMROZI,
Indonesia's "laughing bomber," before being sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings

"The generals love napalm."

COLONEL RANDOLPH ALLES,
commander of Marine Air Group 11, admitting that Marines dropped incendiary bombs on Iraqi troops in March to ease the way for American troops bound for Baghdad

"Saddam Hussein is doing better at marketing himself."

AHMAD RIKABI,
director of Iraqi Television, announcing his resignation on the grounds that the U.S. is losing the propaganda war

"I'm coming home to visit my family for the first time in 15 years."

HAJI RASHID,
elderly Afghan migrant to Holland, arriving in Kabul on the first civilian flight from Western Europe to Afghanistan since the Soviet Union invaded in 1979

"Basically, she foaled herself."

CESARE GALLI,
announcing the birth of the first cloned horse, in Italy. A mare's skin cell was used to fertilize one of her own eggs, from which genetic material had been removed. The mare then carried her own clone to term

"Give genocide a helping hand."

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