11.   And there is no uncertainty about how the story ends.

12.   And the whole story ends with Christiana and her party ascending to their technicolor reward.

13.   And, alas, that is how this messy story ends.

14.   At last the story ends abruptly, as if the author had simply run out of gas.

15.   After all, they said, no one knew how the story would end.

16.   After dragging on interminably, the story then ends abruptly.

17.   Allan Houston knows how the story ends.

18.   But a committee of the national Brain Attack Coalition said Tuesday the story does not end there.

19.   But alas, even the best stories must end.

20.   But for political vagaries, the story might have ended there for both sopranos.