[PLUG] How to pull out a particular line from a textfile

[Matt Alexander]

I've got a file and I want to write a script to pull out particular lines
and save them in variables.  Line 1 is always the email address and Line 2
is always the subject, for example.

#!/bin/bash

EMAIL=`some magical way to pull out line 1 from a textfile`
SUBJECT=`some magical way to pull out line 2 from a textfile`


I assume there's a simple command to pull out a particular line from a
textfile, but I can't think of anything right now.
Thanks,
~M