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Rudy Giuliani has used a horrible event - September 11th, 2001 - to create a carefully-crafted persona - Harold A

Rudy Giuliani has used a horrible event - September 11th, 2001 - to create a carefully-crafted persona - Harold A. Schaitberger, president of the largest firefighters' trade union in the United States, accusing the former New York mayor and Republican presidential contender of mishandling of the 9/11 rescue efforts.

We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.

Major Mike Shearer, a spokesman for the British army, amid reports that UK forces in the Iraqi city of Basra had unleashed a plague of giant, man-eating badgers.

He can make big publicity, but inside of the field you have to prove it.

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Soccer legend Pele on the hype surrounding David Beckham's move to Los Angeles Galaxy.

It has often been argued that we don't have real local government here; we have local administration. I have heard that said so many times at council meetings.

Minister for the Environment and Local Government John Gormley announcing plans for a directly-elected mayor in Dublin.

Me + Rachel + Marriage = Over!!!!

Excerpt from an e-mail exchange between Joe O'Reilly and his sister, Ann, four months before the death of his wife, Rachel. Joe O'Reilly is on trial for her murder.

White man very great . . . white mister is big juju man!

From the comic book Tintin in the Congo, which bookseller Borders has removed from the children's section of its stores after complains about its allegedly racist content.

I think my head has ruled my heart. I feel very bad about myself walking away, because I would in lots of ways have liked to help out in terms of its resurrection again.

Progressive Democrats president Tom Parlon, who is to leave politics to become director general of the Construction Industry Federation.

It is not every day that people use a Bentley to arrive at a premises they intend to rob.

London Detective-Sergeant Sarah Staff, after $20 million worth of jewellery was stolen from an up-market London jewellers by two men who arrived at the store in a luxury car, posing as wealthy diamond merchants.

Christ established here on Earth only one church.

A new document approved by Pope Benedict XVI which states that non-Catholic denominations are not true churches.

We don't owe the blacks a damn thing.

US president Richard Nixon scoffing at the suggestion of appointing a black politician to his 1972 cabinet in newly-released national archive audio tapes.

I married the son, not the father.

Jane Felix-Browne, who wed Omar Osama bin Laden, a son of the al-Qaeda leader.

God willing, Pakistan will have an Islamic revolution soon. The blood of martyrs will bear fruit.

Maulana Abdul Aziz, chief cleric of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, which was stormed by Pakistani government troops after negotiations failed to dislodge militants who had taken control of the compound.