61.   A. There is no doubt that things will look much better.

62.   Across town, things did not look so bright at the Kandahar Medical College.

63.   After Tuesday, in fact, things were looking more possible than ever.

64.   All heck broke loose because the thing looked nothing like a palmetto and everything like an atomic bomb mushroom cloud.

65.   But from where I sat, things looked different.

66.   But if that was a clear vision of how things looked last week, to many in Moscow it now feels like the morning after.

67.   But like mottled glass, they warp and distort, so that what we see from where we stand is not how things look from the other side.

68.   But now things are looking glum for those who leaped into the stock of the Syncronys Softcorp.

69.   But now, with reports that women in Kabul were tearing off their veils, things did not look good.

70.   But on the fledgling Country Club Plaza, things already were looking a little brighter.