1.   If the case became important, Holder figured, paperwork would cross his desk in due course.

2.   The case became more and more complicated.

3.   The case became something of an obsession with him.

4.   Secondly, the case became representative of the whole thrift scandal, where the newly deregulated savings and loan industry had been pillaged through ruthless speculation and outright fraud.

5.   Already the Sheff case is becoming fodder for November legislative elections.

6.   And for Ms. Bingaman, whose red hair matches her fiery personality, the Microsoft case has now become an unexpected and unwanted tar-baby.

7.   As Commey sits in a federal holding cell in New York awaiting trial, the case has become a topic of discussion in churches and saloons here.

8.   As the Louima case became public, it forced New Yorkers to demand answers about how anyone charged with protecting the public could commit such a sadistic act.

9.   At the same time, the cases became more complex.

10.   Before he eventually was reinstated, his case became an international battleground for the clash between scientific and Biblical accounts of human origins.