1.   And delivery room crises have flared periodically in most of the public hospitals over the last decade.

2.   Crisis flares when Chino joins in the looting during a small-scale riot and is tossed in jail.

3.   During that trip another crisis flared.

4.   The exceptions only came when a major crisis flared.

5.   The governor, in fact, would have been on board two months ago, had not a long-running school-funding crisis flared anew.

6.   Plans for Mandela to visit Russia last year were called off when the Chechen crisis flared.

7.   More serious is the fact that Washington and other major powers have no clear policy on how to respond if a similar crisis flares again in Africa or elsewhere.

8.   The crisis flared a week ago when Montesinos returned to Peru after a failed asylum bid in Panama and promptly went underground.