41.   Even Kidd is not talking these days about a long run for the Nets.

42.   Few worry these days about either a communist victory or a serious crackdown on newspapers or radio and television stations.

43.   For all the fuss in recent days about Falcons quarterbacks, it seems like Tony Graziani has been forgotten.

44.   For all the conventional wisdom these days about exploitation of the frontier, the Anglo-American settlers had a differ-ent view of themselves.

45.   For example, I became curious the other day about a dietary supplement called Melatonin.

46.   Foxx said she thinks every day about the pain her actions caused.

47.   Golota said he was thinking more these days about why he insists on punching below the belt.

48.   Gore was accompanied by entertainer Jimmy Buffett, who poked at the GOP ticket throughout the day about their ties to the oil industry.

49.   Given his current woes, Al Gore is probably not all that keen these days about inviting his rich Asian pals over for tea.

50.   He and Lichtenstein, who was in the printing business, talked every day about what Lichtenstein jokingly called situations.