21.   Lavin says he just tries to laugh with the students, such as the Oregon ones who held up signs that poked fun of his hair.

22.   McCoy had not taken a step backward, Lavin said.

23.   The other starting positions will be determined in practice, Lavin said.

24.   Three weeks ago, and again last week, Lavin said he was guardedly optimistic McCoy and Johnson would eventually return.

25.   While open admissions helped deliver higher education to disadvantaged students, the university did not collapse its own standards or lose its standing in the process, Lavin said.

26.   Apulello suffered a major brain injury and cannot work, drive or dress herself, Lavin said.

27.   Lavin said that a successful agreement with Singapore could lead to others in the region.

28.   Lavin also said that Singapore needed to do more to assure its busy port was not used by terrorists to smuggle arms and other contraband material.

29.   Lavin said he was confident the efforts of U.S. military troops in the Philippines would put a stop to the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group operating there.

30.   Lavin said he was sorry.