My view is that they [the banks] are partly to blame and there are people who feel remorse about this.

– Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Citigroup

[Note to Sir Win: Good use of the third person, impersonal. "We don't know who these people are, but, by Jove, I swear they are out there!"]

For this season, all the big names embrace the pale and interesting pout.

– Susannah Frankel, Fashion Columnist, The Independent

[Note to readers: Yes, I know. My juxtaposition is not subtle. But it is what I thought when I read it.]

NEXT! Resisting the ‘Press for Champagne’ button at the Soho It brasserie Bob Bob Richard.

– The Sunday Times’ Style Magazine, 04 January 2009

[Clearly someone didn't get the memo.]

/df