1.   Before letting F. Lee Bailey step off the witness stand Tuesday after five tedious days of testimony, U.S. Magistrate James Glazebrook personally quizzed him about his finances.

2.   Lawyers for Republicans tried to steal the show Thursday, providing the only drama in an otherwise tedious day.

3.   Trying to get through endless tedious days at the office with Parker Posey and Toni Collette.

4.   For some of the children, schoolwork is a high point of tedious days amid the gray earth and parched shrubs.