41.   The players have rejected this proposal, and Jordan and other top stars are threatening a boycott of the World Championships this summer, should a lockout occur.

42.   The only reason the ISU let its top stars perform in pro events was to entice them to stay eligible.

43.   The pursuit of Gates makes black studies look more like a battlefield for top stars than a serious intellectual discipline, these scholars say.

44.   The relatively modest story is considered a vehicle for Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis or some other top star.

45.   The United States was without its top two stars, Monica Seles and Lindsay Davenport, who had declined to participate in the first round.

46.   There are too few head-to-head meetings between the top stars.

47.   There is no talk about NBA draft picks at Iona, or concerns that a top star will leave school after his freshman or sophomore seasons.

48.   Those numbers will probably hold because top stars such as Ric Flair, Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan are finishing up guaranteed contracts and television ratings are still lagging.

49.   AEG, which also owns the London Knights hockey team, hopes to attract top stars to perform at the dome.

50.   And celebrity watchers complained that top stars were scarce this year.