11.  Any predictions about the 2000 presidential race made now, more than three years before the vote, inevitably will be risky, stupid and wrong.

12.  Any proper convergence, therefore, may have to await even more complicated economic reforms and convertibility.

13.  Any proposals to increase public spending could cause bonds to fall, since resulting economic growth might make an interest rate increase more likely.

14.  Denktash, normally the more voluble of the two, pronounced the start of the talks "very good."

15.  Dennis Jr. now has a stack of e-mails and faxes to read, more stuff on top of Mrs. Rooker's usual homework assignments.

16.  Dennis Rodman notwithstanding, the market still rewards niceness: Cal Ripken Jr. will always get more endorsements than Albert Belle.

17.  Dennis, the storm that wouldn't die, threatens to claim one more victim: The Labor Day weekend crowd on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

18.  Denny attributes these problems to an overly ambitious marketing campaign that generated more sales than the company could handle.

19.  Denny Schuler was hired as offensive coordinator and immediately scrapped Pettibone's wishbone offense for a more pass-oriented version of the option.

20.  Denton said his motivation is not money, but a desire to make care homes more careful.