11.   Some had overcome hardship to attend the celebration.

12.   Sure enough, over the next six hours or so, into our bedtime, we attended the celebration by proxy, hostage to the revels below.

13.   Streets immediately around the Mall will be closed, and city officials have urged persons attending the celebration to use the Metro subway system.

14.   The actor Alan Cumming was just one of the stars who attended the celebration last week.

15.   This spring, he was detained when he tried to attend centennial celebrations at Beijing University.

16.   Williams had been scheduled to attend the celebration, but backed out late Thursday morning.

17.   A Palestinian official said Sunday that PLO chief Yasser Arafat would attend Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, the Biblical birthplace of Jesus.

18.   Also Friday, unidentified gunmen attacked a Karachi school, wounding at least seven children attending independence celebrations.

19.   Also Sunday, Christmas eve, the pope celebrates midnight Mass and Yasser Arafat attends Christmas eve celebrations in Bethlehem.

20.   Arafat invited Luzhkov to attend the celebrations.