1.   Hafez al-Assad, who with members of his small Alawite clan has dominated Syrian politics for two decades.

2.   In love with a mysterious horseman who shadows the movements of her small clan, Gabbeh is anxious to marry the stranger.

3.   In the Arab world, Syria is comparable to neighboring Iraq, where a small clan of Sunni Muslims wield power in Baghdad over a Shiite Muslim majority.

4.   Now he is the latest in a small clan of sluggers who have dominated an October night.

5.   Members of small Himalayan clan flock to U.S.

6.   She comes from a small nomadic clan that survived by pursuing rain across the desert to support its camels.

7.   Small Tutsi clan vows to defend itself.