71.   She took the podium without a rehearsal, a score or a baton.

72.   When Netanyahu took the podium Sunday at a meeting of the Likud central committee, his internal support was virtually ensured and he was relaxed and smiling.

73.   When he later took the podium at the church with images of his friend on a screen above him, golf seemed trivial.

74.   As deputy party leader Juergen Moellemann took the podium, a handful of young activists stormed the stage, calling him an anti-Semite.

75.   But as soon as he took the podium and raised his baton, he became as lithe and agile as any colleague thirty years his junior.

76.   Clinton goes first, and is expected to leave immediately before Castro takes the podium.

77.   Dole, who stepped down from the Senate for his third and final White House bid last year, took the podium with a characteristically wry quip.

78.   On Wednesday, the MPs traded shouts of protest as the opposition again prevented the ruling party from taking the podium after a day-long debate.

79.   Taking the podium, she immediately began flaying police for the raid, accusing them of using apartheid-style commando tactics.