21.   But the e-mail address belonged to a different Linda Tripp, who told Ms. Cox that she had been bombarded since the scandal broke.

22.   But the White House on Sunday put up its most energetic public defense since the scandal broke.

23.   But they had openly expressed doubts about Nannery even before the scandal broke, sometimes to the point of confronting him.

24.   Chirac and Jospin were already suffering in the polls when the latest scandal broke.

25.   Church attendance has dropped dramatically over the last generation, no more precipitously than since the Smyth scandal broke.

26.   Clinton, fortuitously, had rolled out much of his domestic policy agenda before the scandal broke.

27.   Davis left school the night the scandal broke, after one game of his senior season.

28.   During the dizzying weekend after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, the Washington establishment was all but ready to dump President Clinton.

29.   Doyle was a priest and canon law expert assigned to the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C., when the Gauthe scandal broke.

30.   Even before the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, the Clinton White House had complained of an organized network of enemies.