21.   Dole opposes abortion, but makes an exception for women who have become pregnant by rape or incest or whose lives are endangered by the pregnancy.

22.   Gore was not a major player in drafting the plan offered by President Clinton or in the long debate, but he became one by the end.

23.   He dedicated himself to medicine, and became popular by initiating social programs for the poor youth of Montevideo while managing a local soccer club.

24.   He also began collecting oil paintings, becoming by most accounts the biggest collector in China today.

25.   He was a freelancer and by then had become a mercenary and a sybarite, and the Soviet empire that had trained him had collapsed.

26.   I think the more years you play in the league, the better you can become by using your mind, your old vet tricks.

27.   If an obscure Jewish sect could topple classical paganism, it was, in part, because paganism had by late antiquity become little more than a hollow husk.

28.   If Hemingway and Stephen Crane became famous by writing about war, neither logged any real time as warriors.

29.   If the bill passes both houses of Congress and becomes law by the time the Supreme Court case is argued next January, the case will be moot.

30.   In another, a married journalist has a liaison with a married mid-level bureaucrat and leaves her husband after she becomes pregnant by her lover.