11.   Borodin, who is a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the current Russian president, is now the state secretary of the union between Belarus and Russia.

12.   A current president could frustrate the release even of records that a former president wanted released.

13.   A darker view is taken by Christopher Hitchens, the journalist and inveterate Clinton-basher, who flatly equates the current president with Reagan.

14.   A second term for the current president, Dr. Astrid Heiberg of Norway, was rejected.

15.   Actually, he says the current president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, is out to get him.

16.   After Abiola also died unexpectedly a month later, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, the current president, announced a timetable for elections and handover to civilian rule.

17.   After months of political intrigue involving the current president, Abdurrahman Wahid, people here are desperate for a chance to change the subject.

18.   But as a notoriously stiff character in public, Gore lacks the smooth salesmanship qualities of the current president.

19.   But the current president, Mark Altherr, said the club had rebounded somewhat from those dark days.

20.   But Uvaispv smiled when asked whether the current president, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, also a leading candidate, was using the powers of incumbency to his advantage.