Perspectives

" I don ' t have the luxury to look away. I have evidence. "
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor for The Hague's International Criminal Court, on filing genocide charges against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for ethnic cleansing in Darfur

" Work guaranteed in 10 days or less, have done jobs in Spain in the past … Assassin, ex-military, professional and discreet … When words don ' t suffice and the law doesn ' t help, count on me [for] social cleansing. "
A selection of want ads by hired guns that are cropping up on Internet sites in Mexico.

" The weather ' s nice [here]. No snow. "
An unidentified Canadian intelligence agent taunting Omar Khadr, a teen held at Guantánamo Bay since 2003, in a tape released by Khadr's lawyers

" The morale is lower than ever … 4 on a scale of 1 to 10, where anything below 7 is already questionable. "
Paul, an officer in the French Army, speaking on Bastille Day about increased tensions with President Nicolas Sarkozy over plans to radically overhaul the military and cut thousands of personnel.

" I ' m not storming the pulpit to wrestle the microphone from the archbishop … [but] I ' m just not willing to let the bishops meet and pretend that we don ' t exist. "
Gay Anglican priest Gene Robinson, who traveled to the church's once-a-decade Lambeth Conference and preached nearby, despite official orders to desist