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"If al-Qaeda was structured like corporate America, you'd have a chairman of the board still in office, but many of the key operators would no longer be around."
GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, explaining his government's success in tracking down many of the terror group's top officers while failing to find Osama bin Laden

"The church is a multinational, but a multinational that is guided by the Holy Spirit."
JULIAN CARDINAL HERRANZ, on why Pope John Paul II is unlikely to retire due to his frail health, as the executive of a company...