1.   A council vote could be vetoed by the U.S., Russia, China, Britain or France, the five permanent members.

2.   Briand sat with her lawyer, Susannah Colt, as Merrill spoke after the council vote.

3.   Councilwoman Becky Haskin, a Molly backer, thinks Lane will get the five council votes needed to put the moo back in the municipality.

4.   How else do you explain the recent Council vote?

5.   If the council votes for it, that leaves the decision of what to do with the land.

6.   More significant, Andrews said, was another council vote to require more general medical training for obstetricians and gynecologists, to qualify them as primary care practitioners.

7.   Penalosa said council lawyers believe he legally could auction the company without first putting the sale to a council vote.

8.   Philip Morris issued a statement Wednesday denouncing the Council vote.

9.   Qualls said City Attorney James Hahn ordered his Special Operations Section to begin the probe shortly after the council vote in hopes of identifying who leaked the documents.

10.   Southern Section commissioner Dean Crowley is not taking a position until after the council vote.