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"Happy now?"
SILVIO BERLUSCONI, outgoing Prime Minister of Italy, to the left-wing paper L'Unita after resigning and paving the way for Romano Prodi, the center-left leader, to form a new government. Berlusconi held out for three weeks after Italy's election before conceding defeat

"America, you lost!"
ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, al-Qaeda conspirator, after a federal jury recommended a sentence of life in prison for his role in the 9/11 attacks

"Mr. Moussaoui, you came here to be a martyr and die in a big bang of glory. But to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, instead, you...

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