11.   But Jarius Jackson, who turned some heads in his brief stints last season, seems a far better fit in running the option offense Holtz prefers.

12.   But they stand a far better chance of working.

13.   By the numbers, Fox offered a far better buy.

14.   Far better to hold back, draft legislation carefully and conduct detailed congressional hearings, rather than to hurry ill-formed impulses into law.

15.   Far better to reproach the blue collars for failing to keep pace with the changes wrought by the global economy.

16.   Far better, in fact, than the Portland pachyderm that San Francisco zoo officials were thinking of acquiring to keep Tinkerbelle company.

17.   Far better, with online help, to appreciate both.

18.   Far better for the party to have a brow-beaten Clinton in the White House to scorn than a lively Gore to contend with.

19.   Far better for the world as well as Rwanda to seek justice before an international tribunal under U.N. auspices.

20.   Far better for us all to work together to be firm, to be resolute, to be determined to resolve this now.