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'Everyone guessed wrong.' JOE BIDEN, Vice President, acknowledging that the Administration's $787 billion economic-stimulus plan has failed to reduce the unemployment rate

'We want our votes to be counted because we want reforms, we want kindness, we want friendship with the world.' ALI REZA, one of hundreds of thousands of Iranians who gathered in Tehran to protest the country's June 12 election result

'I use whatever tools I have to be able to get back at these people.' LUIS DOMINGUEZ, a Cuban exile who masqueraded as a woman online to dupe Fidel Castro's son into an Internet relationship

'No one knows...

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