21.   If the city falls, the Taliban will no longer hold a major Afghan town and will be forced to flee into the mountains or possibly into Pakistan.

22.   If the Pacers played in New York, the big city would be falling all over Miller and Jackson and Smits and those two earnest Davises.

23.   If the city fell to the Northern Alliance, supplies could pour across the border from Uzbekistan, where American troops are stationed.

24.   In New Orleans, Nicholas says, several all black regiments were formed to fight for the South and then joined the Union forces when the city fell.

25.   In New Orleans, Nicholas says, several all- black regiments were formed to fight for the South and then joined the Union forces when the city fell.

26.   It is even more disorienting to lose them while also in terror for your own life, while a once-solid city falls in on itself.

27.   Meanwhile, German cities are falling to the Allies like dominoes.

28.   Nearly four weeks after the city fell, there have been no revenge killings.

29.   Now the city has fallen into the soapy paws of Spelling Television.

30.   Of course, should the city fall on hard times, the universities might be sitting less pretty, too.