31.   The basic facts are not in dispute.

32.   The fact is he was murdered.

33.   The fact is most media outlets try to police themselves.

34.   The fact is no government can meet the insatiable demand for ever more sophisticated medical technology by an ageing population.

35.   The fact is simply that the two colours do not possess universal symbolic meanings shared by all the peoples of the globe.

36.   The fact is that between July and September of this year the whole family was dependent on state benefits.

37.   The fact is that both the benefits of affirmative action and the white-male fears of reverse discrimination have been exaggerated.

38.   The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons.

39.   The fact is that most Americans feel little sympathy for AIDS sufferers.

40.   The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering.