Originally published Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 12:03 AM
Quotations of the day
"It's black, it's black, it's waaay black!" - Eliza Nagle, a 21-year-old Notre Dame theology major on an exchange program in Rome, as smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel's chimney early Tuesday. The black smoke signaled that cardinals had failed to elect a new pope in their initial balloting.
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"It's black, it's black, it's waaay black!" - Eliza Nagle, a 21-year-old Notre Dame theology major on an exchange program in Rome, as smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel's chimney early Tuesday. The black smoke signaled that cardinals had failed to elect a new pope in their initial balloting.
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"I'm in shock and want to be left alone." - Elizabeth Valle, after her son, NYPD cop Gilberto Valle, was convicted of conspiring to abduct, roast and eat women in a macabre case that opened a window on a shocking Internet world of cannibalism fetishists.
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"This is an unbelievable streak that we're on. We're playing great basketball." - Miami's LeBron James, after the Heat downed Atlanta, 98-81, for their 19th straight win, the fifth-longest streak in NBA history.










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