31.   Before Hanan Ashrawi began speaking in this village near Jerusalem on Thursday, there was a moment that seemed taken from an American election campaign.

32.   Bob Reiss, owner of the North Pole village near Lake Placid, had trouble walking through the park on a recent Sunday.

33.   Born in Old Picacho, a farming village near Las Cruces, N.M., Saenz was the fourth of seven children.

34.   Both matches have recently been made in southwestern France, in two villages near Condom, in Gascony.

35.   Boilly was from a village near Lille.

36.   A Democratic Party official was killed, apparently in a polling place, in a village near the town of Fier in central Albania.

37.   A native of a mining village near Newcastle, he served briefly in the Coldstream Guards as a teen-ager.

38.   After a gun battle later in the week, Israel amassed a couple dozen tanks on the entrances to Palestinian villages near Bethlehem.

39.   After leaving Westinghouse, Kirby moved to Pelican Bay, a retirement village near Naples that had been developed by Westinghouse two decades earlier.

40.   But he was visibly troubled by what he saw in Alkhan-Yurt, a village near Grozny that residents say was pillaged by Russian troops.