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"While a change in your Iraq policy will best advance our chances for success, we do not believe the current civilian leadership at the Department of Defense is suited to implement and oversee such a change in policy." LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH, signed by a dozen congressional Democrats, urging him to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "Creating Don Rumsfeld as a bogeyman may make for good politics but would make for very lousy strategy at this time." TONY SNOW, White House press secretary, in rebuttal "Our educational system has been affected by 150 years of secular thought and has raised thousands of people who hold Ph.D.s. Changing this system is not easy, and we have to do it together." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, apologizing to students for allowing liberal and secular professors to remain in their posts at Iranian universities. He called for a faculty purge "I responded that I preferred his sister, it's true. It wasn't something nice, true." MARCO MATERAZZI, Italian soccer player, finally revealing what was said during the July World Cup final that provoked star French footballer Zinedine Zidane to head-butt him after he grabbed Zidane by the shirt and the Frenchman told him, "If you want, I'll give you the jersey later." "Calm down. Breathe. We hear you." MARK ZUCKERBERG, founder of the networking site Facebook, in response to protests about a new feature that updates users' home pages with fresh information that their friends have posted. Users called it an invasion of privacy. Facebook is "aggressively evaluating" the feature Sources: U.S. Newswire; whitehouse.gov New York Times; Gazzetta dello Sport; Philadelphia Inquirer

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