(FORTUNE Magazine) – ALEXANDER TROTMAN 60, CEO of Ford Motor, on what it would take to overtake General Motors: ''We're only a million vehicles apart, so one of us has to go up half a million and the other one has to go down half a million. Stranger things have happened.''

ROBERTO ALDAZABAL, 18, a Cuban gymnast, on what took him to Puerto Rico, where he won a gold medal in the Central American Caribbean Games and then, along % with some 35 teammates, defected: ''The objective was not to be good at sports, but to get out of Cuba.''