11.   The presidential ceremony will come too late for six.

12.   The welcoming ceremony came a half hour after Fhimah stepped off the Dutch Air Force Hercules transport commissioned by the United Nations to carry him home.

13.   By tradition, the naming ceremony comes on the seventh day after birth.

14.   Ceremonies Friday came after weeks of reports in state-controlled media about the war.

15.   The ceremony came two days after Lemieux joined the Hockey Hall of Fame, which waived its normal three-year waiting period for induction.

16.   The ceremony came one day after Vahanen said the Abu Sayyaf rebels raped some of the female captives.

17.   The ceremony comes after weeks of debate about whether or not the memorial should acknowledge the wheelchair the president was confined to after an attack of polio.

18.   The ceremony came the day after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell visited Tashkent, the Uzbek capital.

19.   The ceremony came a day after Kabila gave himself broad powers to govern without a legislature until a new constitution can be adopted.

20.   The ceremony came a day after Kabila gave himself the power to rule by decree, governing without a legislature until a new constitution can be adopted.