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"This is about the continuing poverty rates, the continuing growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor. It's still about unemployment issues. There are so many national issues that have to be addressed that it isn't just policing, as I think we all well know." — New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton on NBC's "Meet the Press," referring to what he sees as some underlying issues adding to tensions between police officers and the citizens they protect.
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"We are outside, we are very cold, the ship is full of smoke." — Giorgos Stiliaras, one of more than 200 passengers awaiting rescue from a burning ferry adrift in rough seas between Italy and Albania.
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"There was no warning at all. It was absolutely quiet. ... (The shark) came straight up out of the depths and got him and took him under the water." — Andrew Walsh, who saw a shark attack his friend off the Central California coast. The victim suffered cuts to his right hip.
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