111.   You can count on the Giants playing hard and pulling together and Sabean making more trades if the team is really as bad as skeptics say.

112.   But even skeptics say the president might be showing that he now cares about the economic plight of the millions who have suffered through four years of halting reforms.

113.   But skeptics say clues can only be found in the shattered forward compartment, which will be left on the seabed.

114.   But skeptics say the network, which has come under fire for resisting requests for data, is still not providing what patients really need.

115.   But skeptics say the veils reveal insincerity.

116.   If anything, the Israelis have confirmed what the skeptics have been saying all along.

117.   Many skeptics said Adamkus had been away from the country far too long to understand its problems.

118.   Skeptics said the bleeding stopped when they demanded scientific testing.

119.   Skeptics say fulfilling campaign promises to these groups might hamper reforms by running up a budget deficit.

120.   Skeptics say it remains flawed until countries like Russia and Iraq, which have acknowledged having chemical arsenals, also join the accord.