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" They can come and meet me here, on the toilet seats. "
Beirut resident Nada Sehnaoui, who installed 600 toilets in a downtown lot to mark the anniversary of Lebanon's civil war, when civilians had to seek shelter in bathrooms to escape artillery fire
" I live for the nights I will never remember, with the friends I will never forget. "
Sean Rees, Wales's latest teen suicide victim—the 19th since January 2007—writing on his page on Bebo, a social-networking Web site, before he hanged himself last week after a night out drinking with his buddies
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" We are facing an extreme emergency. To understand what ' s happening to Le Monde, it ' s necessary to talk about the arrogance of newspapers. "
Laurent Greilsamer, assistant managing editor of Le Monde, on the organization's plan to lay off a quarter of its 600 employees. The paper hasn't turned a profit in seven years.
" It ' s easier for a terrorist to enter Europe than for a dope smoker to get inside a coffee shop. "
Marc Josemans, chairman of the Maastricht coffee-shop association. Dutch authorities plan to put finger scanners in the cannabis-selling shops to ensure that no one buys more than five grams per day.
" Never will we accept in our profession that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny. "
Didier Grumbach, head of the French Federation of Couture, criticizing a proposed law in France that would penalize any form of mass communication—from fashion magazines to anorexia Web sites—that promotes an eating disorder
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