21.   Hun Sen has alternated between urging that the past be buried and forgotten and urging that a trial proceed to exorcise the ghosts of the past.

22.   If Lott wants a trial to proceed, there may be no way for Democrats to stop it.

23.   If the process sounds fairly standard and cut-and-dried, however, no two trials proceed at the same pace.

24.   In a sense, two trials are proceeding simultaneously these days before Judge Lance Ito of Superior Court.

25.   In both cases Bush decided to let civil trials proceed.

26.   Jon and Pam Watts, a couple from Washington state, differed on how the trial should proceed.

27.   Legally, questions about whether these second go-round trials can proceed have long been settled.

28.   Meanwhile, the White House continued to talk privately to members of the Senate to see how a trial will proceed.

29.   The judge allowed the trial to proceed only as a common-law business disparagement claim.