1.   In her innocent curiosity, Cissie had opened old wounds.

2.   Maybe it opens emotional wounds.

3.   But by bringing the war to neighboring Dagestan, another semi-autonomous republic, the Chechen rebels have opened wounds that have festered for centuries.

4.   But in a world where religion so often opens wounds, one can hardly overlook religious leaders striving to close them.

5.   But the warfare between Bush and McCain has an especially rough edge, and it could open wounds that will not be easily healed.

6.   Depending on whom you talked to afterward, she either made amends with her self-deprecating jokes or opened new wounds with some well-aimed zingers at Pataki aides.

7.   Enough of these earnest, warm-voiced dispatches from the Blandlands -- this campaign needs a series of ads that open wounds and dump on the salt.

8.   Even now, too many people do not understand how a simple word or a flag fluttering in the breeze can open old wounds.

9.   For runner-up Joe Nemechek, it opened wounds from having lost a brother in a crash in Homestead, Fla., three years ago.

10.   Joseph McAleer, a Bridgeport diocese spokesman, said the church was fighting the newspapers to avoid opening old wounds.