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“No high official of the police even answered our phone call.”
ASMA KIBRIA
wife of slain leader SAMS Kibria
saying she feels insecure in the face of repeated threats over the phone.

“Farmers offered bribes worth Tk 3,000 to get a loan of Tk 10,000, yet they couldn't get it.”
Major (rtd) MANJUR KADER
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) MP.

“Home is the right place for learning religious lessons.”
KHALEDA ZIA
prime minister
The PM also said, "Science and computer education will be introduced in the madrasa."

“Mrs Parker Bowles and I are absolutely delighted.”
Prince CHARLES
Britain's 56-year-old heir to the throne
in a statement expressing his feeling after the Queen and Prince Philip wished him and Camilla Bowles, a divorced mother of two, well. Charles's first wife, Diana, the princess of Wales, divorced him in 1996 ending their 14-year-old "fairy tale marriage". Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

“So much so, that Prince Charles (Scorpio) has chosen not just one crab maiden, but two as wives.”
The Daily Mirror
"Camilla and Diana share the emotional qualities of the crab. They are two faces of this complex sign. Cancer wants to nurture and be looked after," the newspaper says. "The Prince and his Countess (Camilla) have chosen April 8th as their wedding day. The day of a rare eclipse," it continues.

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