September 2006

"An was the Quiet Vietnamese, the representative figure who was at once a lifelong revolutionary and an ardent admirer of the United States."

"600 cars got stuck there. Hunger and lack of the fuel followed, according to the witnesses. One woman gave a born to a child right in the public bus she was riding."

"no investigation of Eitam has occurred on this matter, and there was no condemnation of his statement by the Israeli government"

"Perhaps the most ambitious measure undertaken is the newly mandated 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions."

"Were calibration and derivation uncertainties taken into proper consideration, the 95% confidence interval would have turned out to be at least 40 times larger (~14.2 billion years)."

"In the area north of the Litani river, you have three or four people being killed every day by cluster bombs. The Israeli army knows that 30 per cent of them do not explode at the time they are fired so they become anti-personnel mines."

"there is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists"

"Whether writing in opposition to America or in support of it, Arab columnists seem pretty unanimously to see Islamist extremism on the rise, democracy in retreat, and American influence in tatters."

"ordinary citizens and government bureaucrats still cling to the notion that Japanese society is a unique, homogeneous culture"

"it was too much to do one's best to cover the war here fairly while still maintaining a sense of truth, only to be flayed by people who accuse me of shilling for Hizbullah"