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Monday, Jan. 12, 2004

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"I have not seen [a] smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection, but I think the possibility of such connections did exist, and it was prudent to consider them at the time."
Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, in response to continued doubts about links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, one of the reasons the Bush Administration cited for going to war

"[He] was like a blind man in a room full of deaf people."
Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary, describing in his new book the lack of give-and-take in President George W. Bush's Cabinet meetings

"We will start a patriotic health campaign to kill rats and cockroaches in order to give every place a thorough cleaning for the Lunar New Year."
Feng Liuxiang, deputy director of the Guangdong health bureau, after a second person in the southern Chinese province was suspected of coming down with SARS

ASIA

N. Korea: Atomic Shakedown

Kashmir: A Glimmer of Hope

SARS: Averting an Outbreak

Terror: Targeting Thailand

S. Asia: The Road to Peace

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South Korea: Capital Maneuver

Indonesia: Advice for Couples

China: Rules of Attraction

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Paris: Crystal Wonderland

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"I do not even know if I know how to spell my name anymore."
George Harrison, Beatles guitarist, on his deathbed, according to a $10 million lawsuit filed by his estate alleging that Harrison's doctor coerced the cancer-stricken rock star into signing autographs for the doctor's children. The doctor denies the accusations

"It looks like mud, but it can't be mud."
Dr. Steven W. Squyres, scientist with NASA's Spirit mission to Mars, after viewing pictures of the planet's surface. The mission's rovers will scour the surface for evidence of water

"I believe that the reason I smoke and drink and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years. "
Timothy Dumouchel, a Wisconsin man who threatened to sue a cable company for providing free service for four years after he requested that it be canceled. (Dumouchel decided not to sue)

"If they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that's fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did."
Robert Duvall, U.S. actor, in a TV interview, on why he didn't resume his role as Tom Hagen in The Godfather III