The nation in brief
Posted: August 11, 2009 at 4:40 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "They are destroyed by pain." Italian Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta, on relatives of five tourists who died when their sightseeing helicopter collided with an airplane in New York.
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