11.   Claims of rehabilitation and religious conversion by death row prisoners routinely fall on deaf ears in Texas.

12.   Conferees also are expected to oppose an Israeli proposal that would disqualify religious conversions performed by non-Orthodox rabbis.

13.   Colleagues, relatives and confidants will go public with pregnancies, engagements, divorces, illnesses, religious conversions, sexual orientations and bizarre affiliations.

14.   Consider the experience of Ken Noonan, who likened the change in his position on bilingual education over the last two years to a religious conversion.

15.   Day has long since had a religious conversion, about which he speaks openly and often.

16.   Deion Sanders, the cornerback formerly known as Prime Time who now preaches prayer time, showed that his religious conversion had not dampened his theatrical flair.

17.   During a four-month stay in the Harris County Jail for a probation violation, he experienced a religious conversion.

18.   Fitness, focus and a fanatical desire to compete have ganged up on him with the force of a religious conversion.

19.   He is sitting alone in his hotel room, shortly after making his controversial religious conversion.