21.   A highly touted transfer, Jackson drew comparisons to Houston Oilers tailback Eddie George from coaches and recruiting analysts when he played at City College of San Francisco.

22.   A former Bullock employee once drew comparisons of Bullock to Lyndon Johnson.

23.   A tenor larynx so uniquely clotted with cream it draws comparisons to Johnny Mathis.

24.   Accolades poured in from his conducting teachers, Fritz Reiner and Serge Koussevitzky, and comparisons were drawn with his slightly older, similarly prodigious Curtis classmate Leonard Bernstein.

25.   Adam Deadmarsh of the Colorado Avalanche drew a comparison.

26.   Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, drew the comparison last month, citing Japan as evidence that stocks fall as well as rise.

27.   Alexandru Ioan Pop, head of the union in the Brasov tractor plant, sat in a well-stocked bakery with a foreign reporter and drew the comparison.

28.   Again Levine was drawing comparisons, it seemed, this time between the Ives and the Ligeti.

29.   Brenly drew a comparison to one of the great closers of his playing days in describing how Rivera dominates hitters with one pitch.

30.   Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, cautioned against drawing tidy comparisons between the realm of tiny particles and cities with life-size pedestrians.