Perspectives

" Going after a torchbearer in a wheelchair, [that] I have no respect for. "
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, criticizing Parisians who mobbed a paraplegic bearer during the torch's European leg, before it arrived in California

" President Bush has an exit strategy for just one man: himself. "
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nevada Democrat), criticizing the American leader's reluctance to reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq before leaving office next January

" This is horrible. They have a first-class line over here with no one in it, and they are not diverting anyone. "
Hillary Dowe , a traveler stranded in Austin, Texas, after American Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights—roughly half its schedule—to inspect a potentially faulty wiring system on its fleet of MD-80 jets

" Back at home, we sometimes run for five or six days, day and night … 26 miles? Not far. "
Isaya, a Masai warrior who entered the London Marathon to raise money to find a clean water source for his home village

" She drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time. "
Sabir Ali , pediatrician for a town northeast of Delhi where a baby born with two faces is being worshiped as an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Durga

" You ' re not particularly happy to be here, are you, ma ' am? "
Attorney Preston Burton, questioning on the witness stand a call girl who worked in a D.C. sex ring, where clients included a U.S. senator, a deputy secretary of state and a top military strategist

Sources, top to bottom: AFP, BBC, CBS news, Reuters, A.P., U.K. Guardian