11.   Director Jim Jarmusch puts his compellingly strange twist on the mafia genre.

12.   Envision, based in Marlborough, Mass., has lived through a striking number of strange twists and turns in its eight-month life as a public company.

13.   For Bush, the McCain effort to glue him to the religious right is a strange twist of political fate.

14.   From profit sharing to potty sharing, the path to corporate enlightenment takes many strange twists.

15.   He will receive the remainder of the money owed to him, and in a strange twist, was offered another job by Katz in the organization.

16.   Helping those sales was a strange twist in the evolution of the functional box.

17.   In a strange twist of fate, Calderon was fired by Cosmopolitan, then the third most popular Spanish-language magazine.

18.   In a strange twist of eugenics, the Babyz sought are, like their prospective parents, overwhelmingly female, and the cast-off orphan babies are male.

19.   In a strange twist of fate, both Larry Igo and his wife left for home moments before the twister struck.

20.   In a strange legal twist, President Clinton was a player on both sides of the case.