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Feb. 26, 2005

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Who's Carl This Time?

Quote 1 (Listen)

CARL: "And having said that, all options are on the table."

That was someone making our policy on Iran perfectly clear. Who?

Answer 1

Quote 2 (Listen)

CARL: "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

That was the credo of a very famous writer whom sex, drugs and insanity served really well, at least until he died this week at the age of 67.

Answer 2

Quote 3 (Listen)

CARL: "Considering they have had 33 years to plan this great event, they have made a ham-fist of it. This certainly looks like a comedy of errors."

That was Richard Kay , the royal correspondent for the Daily Mail in Britain. What event -- three decades in the making -- is turning into a monstrous fiasco for the British Crown?

Answer 3