31.   Last Saturday, a beleaguered Carmen Cozza of Yale became the latest in a string of Ivy League football coaches trying to explain the phenomenon he had just witnessed.

32.   Like many animistic cultures, the Asheninka explain natural phenomena with tales of spirits.

33.   Mailson da Nobrega, a former finance minister who is now an economic consultant here, explained the phenomenon.

34.   Neither Lalov nor Doikov can explain the phenomenon.

35.   Physicists observe the natural world and extract from it laws and principles that reliably explain everyday phenomena.

36.   Pollsters tried to explain the phenomenon, but the explanations may not provide a lot of comfort.

37.   So who better to explain the phenomenon?

38.   Some residents said high gun ownership, combined with a rural sense of self-reliance, may explain the phenomenon.

39.   So what explains the phenomenon?

40.   Tales of tortured genius have always brought out the worst of those in the popular arts who would explain the phenomenon.