Mark my words … I mean what I say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Dec 24, 2001 | by John Elvin

"I'm sorry, I can't talk."

-- The response recommended by Leah Iraheta, a Seattle-based immigration-rights activist, advising the 5,000 recent arrivals in the United States who may be interviewed by the Justice Department in the course of its ongoing terrorism investigation.

"You want to take this outside?"

-- Reportedly an oft-heard phrase in exchanges between counselors-at-law in Illinois courtrooms, prompting the state Supreme Court to convene a panel to recommend ways to improve the behavior of lawyers, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

"It was observed that nine `army men' were present in the block play area."

-- Katie Haselden, an evaluator for North Carolina's Division of Child Development Policy, explains why a preschool program was docked five points in an evaluation. Nine tiny, green, plastic, toy soldiers found in a sandbox are considered representative of violent themes.