11.   A local Boy Scout troop sent a letter of protest to the national officials about the exclusion of gay Scout leaders.

12.   Bush resigned his lifelong membership in the NRA in protest to the remarks.

13.   But a few days later, Carlson faxed a memo about the protest to Limbaugh, who then went on the air saying the health plan was doomed.

14.   But after the Quinn brothers were killed, and moderate voices within the Orange Order called for the protest to end, a bitter split emerged.

15.   But Gov. Pete Wilson and other supporters of the measure criticized the administration, with Wilson sending off a letter of protest to Clinton.

16.   But he needs to look past the symbolism of these protests to the substance behind them.

17.   But Jackson said the bill almost brought protest to Chicago.

18.   But the NAACP seized the leadership on this one, and Jackson is left with a marginal role, trying to expand the protests to Georgia.

19.   But the new evidence drew the spotlight of suspicion on anti-government militants who might have launched the attack as a retaliatory protest to events like Waco.

20.   Civil liberties groups have criticized a plan to limit protests to a fenced-off area set aside near the Staples Center.