11.   A few hundred residents attended the hearing, applauding and hissing various witnesses.

12.   About a dozen of the women attended the hearing.

13.   About a dozen attended the hearing.

14.   But after being photographed at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night, the commissioner flew back to New York to attend the hearing at City Hall.

15.   But Houston attorney Mike Caddell, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, reaffirmed his statement last week that he will not attend a hearing on the gunfire issue.

16.   But his lawyer, Gene Riccio, attended the hearing and said his client was not guilty.

17.   But some Paterson residents attending the hearing said they hoped the state would not rush to leave the district.

18.   California Gov. Pete Wilson did not attend the hearing, but made a pitch for block grants in a written statement.

19.   Delaney did not attend the hearing and the order was extended for one year.

20.   Democrats were wasting taxpayer dollars by not attending the hearing, he said.