11.   Although the number of hate crimes shot up last year in Texas, Briskman said, the law has been a good deterrent.

12.   Americans love rights and recreation but hate crime and mayhem.

13.   An alternative amendment by Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, would authorize a study of hate crimes.

14.   And as backup, an FBI task force is investigating the incident as a federal hate crime, which also can be punishable by death.

15.   And if classified as a hate crime, it could be the first homicide in Arizona history prosecuted as such, officials said.

16.   And the next time the subject of hate crime arises, both should be required viewing.

17.   And there are the lawmakers who promoted bills that would have exempted Arizona from a worldwide ban on Freon and granted legal protection from hate crimes to vegetables.

18.   And they are often the victims of hate crimes.

19.   And where, exactly, is the line between a hate crime and an unpopular point of view?

20.   And, it is this rampant rudeness that is at the root of such social evils as drive-by shootings and hate crimes.