“In an e-mail to local news agencies, a self-styled Islamic fundamentalist group threatened to kill the Pope in the name of Allah.”

“And some left plenty of room for interpretation.”

“The White House still believes that this issue will go away. As one Administration official told me this afternoon, it’s the press that’s keeping the story alive; the American people just don’t care.”

“Drinking while driving is apparently here to stay.”

“Before I started doing this, I was losing my soul, drip by drip by drip.”

— Julie Powell of the Julia/Julie Project, where one woman tackles Julia Childs’ Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

“There are 40 million people who are HIV positive in the world today, there are 24 million people who have already died of AIDS, there are 13 million orphans.”

— Rory Kennedy, Director, Pandemic: Facing AIDS

“On Mr. Bush’s first attempt at riding the scooter, the machine went down, although he managed to stay on his feet.”