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Posted: August 14, 2009 at 4:09 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I have a tough time being compassionate for a guy who killed 270 people." Peter Sullivan, whose best friend was killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103, after hearing that the now-terminally ill man convicted in the attack could be freed early.

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