1.   A year ago this week the column poured praise upon his grub.

2.   ATHENS, Ga. - Those who know Mark Richt best were unanimous in their praise upon learning he had been chosen head football coach at Georgia.

3.   Blair rolled out the red carpet, heaping praise upon the man whom he credited with blazing the trail for a new generation of world leaders.

4.   A parade of officials heaped praise upon Dole, who as the senior Kansas senator once had an office in the building.

5.   Committee Democrats, in contrast, lavished praise upon the general.

6.   Every time any of us do anything, he pours lavish praise upon us.

7.   Instead, he touted the backing he has received from US Sen. Bob Smith and former governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., while heaping praise upon the Union Leader.

8.   Reading awkwardly from their cue cards, the governor and the mayor instead performed an Alphonse and Gaston routine of heaping praise upon each other for the snow cleanup.

9.   Tony Muser, the manager of the Kansas City Royals, has heaped praise upon the New York Yankees in the last two years for their intense play.

10.   When others finally hear it, they will heap praise upon you for getting it so right.