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'40 percent of you need to Lose weight. When you Love potluck more than God, it's serious.'

* THE PASTOR of a Baptist church in Annandale, Va., introducing his congregation to "faith-based dieting," which is growing in popularity across the U.S. [The Washington Post]

'What do you believe? What are you witting to support? ... If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes.'

* SEN. CHUCK HAGEL OF NEBRASKA, a Republican critic of the administration's Iraq policy, urging members of Congress to state their views of the President's plan to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq. [The Wall...