* Outside the entrance of the St. Esprit Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, near the Doctors Without Borders compound, bodies lay on the sidewalk next to names scrawled on pieces of cardboard. One woman lay next to the name "Regina." No one there could explain who Regina was. The day after the worst earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years, the country's president, Rene Preval, said he had no idea where he would sleep that night.
* 2009 was the deadliest year for civilians in Afghanistan since the war there began eight years ago; insurgents caused most of the deaths.
* "It sounds to me a little bit like selling a car with faulty brakes and then buying an insurance policy on the buyer of those cars." - Phil Angelides, chairman of the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, to Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman of Goldman Sachs, about how Goldman Sachs sold troubled mortgages at the same time that it placed bets that the value of those mortgages would fall.
* Senator Edward M. Kennedy's seat--which many had assumed would go to Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate and state attorney--is also being fought for by Scott Brown, the Republican candidate, a formerly little-known state senator who is gaining popularity among unaffiliated and some Democratic voters. Democrats are calling in the big guns, running aggressive ads against Brown and summoning former President Bill Clinton to help with Coakley's campaign.
* An 8-year-old New Jersey Cub Scout, Michael "Mikey" Winston Hicks, shares a name with a suspicious person on the U.S. No-Fly list and has had trouble boarding a plane since he was a baby. He was first patted down at an airport at age 2. He cried.