11.   As soon as the sun rose Wednesday morning, tens of thousands of ordinary Ivoirians began marching from working-class neighborhoods surrounding the city center.

12.   As the day wore on, the city center took on a surreal atmosphere.

13.   As part of the reorganization, Gap plans to slow the rapid expansion that has put its stores in shopping malls and city centers across the world.

14.   At Manara Circle at the city center, where American and Israeli flags and Jewish symbols are routinely trampled and burned on Fridays, there were no flames.

15.   At the lower end of the scale, Dresden finally has a clean, attractive budget hotel in the city center.

16.   At the moment, the Golden Arches stand outside the city center, clustering around seedier area bordering the main train station.

17.   At the Lagoa Cafe in the city center, the answer is now six and rising.

18.   At two polling stations in the city center, a handful of voters offered an opposing view.

19.   Back in the city center, my attention turned to music.

20.   Authorities said the crisis was caused by a police protest that snarled traffic in the city center and a fire at a store.