21.   One e-mail correspondent was Dr. Mark Sykes, chairman of the Division of Planetary Sciences at the American Astronomical Society and an astronomer at the Steward Observatory in Arizona.

22.   Poignant, because your humble correspondent was one of the ones who voiced gloom and doom when the Angels changed hands two years ago.

23.   Some Elmo correspondents were less than enchanted with the process.

24.   The correspondent was a dead ringer for the dead singer.

25.   The correspondent was not so sure.

26.   The correspondent was Tritia Toyota, a consummate professional with nerves of steel.

27.   The correspondent was Steve Kroft and the producer was Leslie Cockburn.

28.   There are anonymous correspondents, and then there are predictable anonymous correspondents.

29.   There were correspondents from The New York Times, The Associated Press, United Press and the Times of London on hand to debrief the Rangers.

30.   To keep their jobs, the correspondents must be timely and insightful.