61.   Bush has rejected the offer.

62.   But a Justice Department death penalty committee rejected that offer, even though life imprisonment would prevent him from posing a future threat.

63.   But as he rejects offers to sell, his team stumbles along and has become the laughingstock of the league.

64.   But Arafat, who has long talked of becoming a martyr, has rejected the offer.

65.   But Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer rejected the offer.

66.   But because Netanyahu has repeatedly declared his opposition to handing back the Golan Heights as a price for peace, Syria has firmly rejected the offer to talk.

67.   But he did not totally reject the offer.

68.   But he rejected the offer.

69.   But is the person who rejects these offers of certainty thrown into the alternative of a relativism that verges on nihilism?

70.   But Israel sealed its borders with the West Bank and Gaza last week and rejected an offer by Hamas to negotiate a truce.