11.   But the Kohl winning streak was broken Sunday, and with it ended one of the most eventful and fateful periods in postwar German and European history.

12.   By ending cooperation with the U.N. inspectors, Saddam effectively blocked them from visiting sites suspected of housing weapons or the materials needed to make them.

13.   Especially since he ended it with a home run, before a hometown crowd, and before his family.

14.   Finally, Sampras ended it with an impossible cross-court backhand.

15.   He began the season with a toe fracture and ended it with a knee injury.

16.   He ended it with a well-received speech, delivered without notes, in Dover.

17.   Had he lost, he would have been the only Giants starter to end it with a losing record.

18.   He dated a girl once or twice after high school graduation, but he ended it with a refusal to brook her Catholic precepts.

19.   He ended it with a perfectly timed fifth-place finish at New Hampshire International Speedway.

20.   He even ended it with some poetic oratory.