Verbatim: Jun. 23, 2003

"She died in my hands." ELIYAHU SHMUELI, a Jerusalem city employee, describing his vain attempt to rescue a burning woman from a bus obliterated by a Palestinian suicide bomber in Jerusalem; 17 people died

"It is time to reassess our policy toward a military dictatorship that has repeatedly attacked democracy and jailed its heroes." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, in an op-ed column on the repression of dissidents by the military junta that rules Myanmar, the former Burma

"There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media." HANS BLIX, retiring chief U.N. weapons inspector,...

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