11.   Pepe Aguilar, a ranchera singer, said he would boycott the ceremony because the lack of Mexican regional artists nominated in major categories.

12.   Bavarian leaders boycotted the ceremony.

13.   But many fellow POWs boycotted reconciliation ceremonies and planned their own services Sunday, excluding all Japanese.

14.   But the American Legion and the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia signaled their opposition to the new policy by boycotting the ceremony.

15.   Five families boycott ceremony, saying U.S. not doing enough to force extradition.

16.   Indonesia was furious about the honor to exiled independence leader Ramos Horta, calling him a traitor and vowing to boycott the ceremony.

17.   Press reports from London, prominently published here, say British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to boycott the ceremony because of the swearing-in timetable.

18.   Some chairs were left open by those who earlier said they were boycotting the ceremony because it honored Arafat, or because violence still wracks the Middle East.

19.   Some of the seats were left open by those boycotting the ceremony because it honored Arafat, or because violence still wracks the Middle East.

20.   The professors later withdrew their threat to boycott the ceremony.