11.   The hope comes across in the giddiness of her actors, who take to the material with welcoming arms.

12.   The Minutemen will return to a building where their Final Four hopes came to an abrupt halt last March with the regional final loss to Oklahoma State.

13.   Where does the hope come from?

14.   With Atlanta mired in post-Super Bowl doldrums and rainy Monday blues, there came some hope.

15.   Yet through mass production comes the hope of declining costs and the glimmer of affordability.

16.   But in less than a month, those hopes came close to being dashed on a cluster of barren rocks in the eastern Aegean Sea.

17.   But for Shira, hope has come in the form of animal welfare activists who visit squatter camps like Zandspruit, on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

18.   But with the doubts came hope that a week of unprecedented protests by enraged civilians had finally convinced warlords they had to make this accord work.

19.   Earlier in the week, Josef Strobl saw his Olympic hopes come to an end when he shredded knee ligaments in a crash during downhill training.

20.   Such hope must come from the confidence that the government would be able to solve the crisis, he said.