Verbatim: Sep. 8, 2003

"We're stuck. The room is filling with smoke. I'm scared." PETER ALDERMAN in an e-mail to his mother before he died, sent on his BlackBerry at 9:25 a.m. from the north tower of the World Trade Center, quoted in a newly released 9/11 transcript

"He's a sissy is what I'm saying. He's a scaredy-cat." RICHIE ROSS, political strategist for Democratic Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, on why Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't yet agreed to participate in a debate of recall candidates

"It's like trying to get a clock ticking again after taking out some of its parts." AHMAD MUKHTAR, administrative secretary in...

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