11.   Now, with polls showing a tight race just weeks before the election, his appearances are a bit less cheerful, his tone sharper.

12.   Rachel collapsed and died of a heart attack just weeks after the election, a death historians link directly to the attacks by religious leaders.

13.   Snipes filed the refund claim just weeks after Chase Manhattan Bank sued to foreclose on his home in Isleworth because he had failed to make five consecutive monthly payments.

14.   The arrest also placed political heat on Clinton, who certified Mexico as a partner in the drug war just weeks after the incident involving Gutierrez.

15.   The four officers had already been indicted by a state grand jury just weeks after the incident.

16.   The resulting grievance was settled out of court for a substantial sum just weeks before the Academy Awards.

17.   Their mother had been killed on their doorstep just weeks before, the victim of a drive-by shooting.

18.   A failure just weeks before the Israeli vote could be extremely damaging for Peres, who is seen by Israelis as an architect of the peace process.

19.   But only last May, a home-produced cholera outbreak threatened to make Hong Kong declare itself an epidemic port just weeks before the handover.

20.   Middle-distance runners Lyubov Kremlyova of Russia and Violeta Beclea of Romania competed at the World Indoor Championships just weeks after failing drug tests, the IAAF confirmed Monday.