21.   Sharpton asked the audience.

22.   So he asked the audience for help.

23.   AIDS activist Nikolai Panchenkov asked the audience.

24.   Arafat asked his audience.

25.   Clinton asked the audience, who applauded Shephard long and loudly.

26.   Historian David McCullough asked the audience to imagine Adams making his way up the winding staircase in the dark, holding a lighted candle.

27.   Leno asked the audience.

28.   On consecutive days, Republican George W. Bush trekked to investment houses to deliver his stump speech and ask the audience for its vote.

29.   The theater staff asked the audience to file out in an orderly manner, saying it was only a brief disturbance and the show would continue.

30.   Vonnegut asked the audience.