1.  Although his words are shaded in bitterness when he talks about the movie business, Penn spoke quietly and with some humor.

2.  Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says the word "democracy has come to stand for a bit of an oversimplification."

3.  Dennis said that he did not expect that the Brazilian Congress to enact major legislative changes by September, but that Cardoso could still make good on his word.

4.  Definitions _ for 400,000 words, the entire American Heritage Dictionary _ appear on a narrow screen at the center of the "pen."

5.  Deford: "So you're saying the word 'movement' is the equivalent of organization?"

6.  DeFrantz, 48, sits behind her large desk at the AAF's headquarters and measures her words, which hardly is unusual.

7.  CUBA-CASTRO (Miami) -- Why Castro is doing what he's doing, in the words of Cuban officials and others.

8.  Cued speech, which is a supplement to sign language, breaks words into syllables and conveys them with hand signals and lip reading.

9.  Culbertson's critics did not mince words.

10.  Derek Lowe didn't mince words about Saturday's second inning at Fenway Park.