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Enjoy our Echo section! The word is always mightier than the sword. Thanks to sources such as: AP, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, New York Times, IMDB, BBC, NPR and foreign press.
1. “It was a script issue. We didn’t have a place to really use talent like theirs, two big stars like that.”
Jerry weintraub, producer of the oceans Eleven franchise, on why Julia Roberts and Catherine zeta- Jones will not be back for the third movie.
2. “I am accused of having said that the [Chinese] Communists used to eat children... but read The Black Book of Communism and you will discover that in the China of Mao, they did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilize the fields.”
Italian prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
3. “In fact, they were asking for the phones to be put into the coffins with them in case they woke up... We came across one guy who asked to be buried with his mobile phone and his Black- berry, and also with his laptop.”
Martin Raymond, director of international trend-spot- ting think-tank -The future laboratory-, on the cases that originated in Cape Town where people believe in witchcraft and feared they would be buried while under a spell.
4. “Whatever they put there they’ll just keep on going over, around or under it...finding a better life for your family is a powerful incentive.”
hugo uriel, an illegal immigrant from Mexico after being caught in the united States and sent back to Mexico, on the no-nonsense policing of the US / Mexico border.
5. “It is the first time I have been offended this way in public to be compared to the biggest perpetrator of genocide the world has known.”
venezuelan president hugo Chavez, when a journalist from the BBC asked about his behavior match- ing the “you’re with us or against us” attitude of his enemy george w. Bush.
6. “Channel 10 offers its solidarity and support to the families involved in this unexpected tragedy that came, in fact, while they were trying to help others.”
Mrs. graciela Baccino, a spokeswoman from the channel after a runaway train killed seven people and injured eleven more in the town of young, uruguay. The victims were part of a reality show where communities raise money to help.
7. “I spoke to the Colombians. It’s fine. I get passionate sometimes. I said Colombia because it was the first country to come to mind. (The drug problem) has as much to do with what’s going on in this country. If there wasn’t a demand, there wouldn’t be a supply.”
Bruce willis, apologizing to Colombia after blaming the nation for America’s drug problems.
