1.   Critics claim that many soccer players are overpaid, overrated and out of touch.

2.   But Senate critics claim that opposition now is mounting as an historic vote nears on whether to bring three former Warsaw Pact countries into NATO.

3.   But while family-friendly programs are not as ubiquitous as critics claim, a climate that is generally open to family concerns is.

4.   Critics claim Congress is grandstanding amid the crisis while larding up legislation with special-interest tax breaks and spending.

5.   Critics claim that part of the deal strikes at the very heart of the constitutional right of citizens to sue in court.

6.   Some critics claim Clinton never put much effort into campaign finance reform.

7.   The critics further claim that the methods used to clear the streams could make the next flood even worse.

8.   But critics claim those very reforms are hamstrung for lack of money.

9.   But it also recently jailed a Protestant preacher and a noted human rights worker on what critics claim are trumped up charges.

10.   Critics claim Kuchma played a role in the disappearance of Heorhiy Gongadze, a journalist who criticized alleged high-level corruption and disappeared in September.