1.   Annan was criticized for going to Baghdad, Iraq, in February and brokering an accord over arms inspections that quickly unraveled.

2.   Carter was at his best when he was brokering the Camp David accords that produced peace between Egypt and Israel.

3.   Gore helped broker the accord, and he has remained a strong proponent of its ratification by the United States Senate.

4.   The accord was brokered by the United States last month in talks at an air base outside Dayton, Ohio.

5.   Annan in February brokered an accord that allowed inspectors to visit presidential palaces which Iraq had declared off limits.

6.   Anthony Lake, a former American national security adviser, helped broker the accord.

7.   Egypt helped broker the accord.

8.   Holbrooke has brokered broad accords on dividing Bosnia between Serbs and a Muslim-Croat alliance and the outlines of how they might share power in a future government.

9.   Liberian President Charles Taylor said his government brokered the accord.

10.   Liberian President Charles Taylor said his government had brokered the accord.