21.   At a convention where one prominent Republican demonstration is a parade of yachts to support abortion rights, the delegates are also far wealthier than most Americans.

22.   A point of contention is expected to be how narrowly delegates are willing to define the concept of a functioning democracy.

23.   A police union delegate was among the officers convicted of helping to cover up the attack.

24.   All the delegates were equipped with briefing books that included diagrams of the diamond, the rules of play and the history of baseball.

25.   Although delegates were disappointed that the highest-ranking Zapatistas, like Subcommander Marcos, had not come, they said they were moved by Ramona.

26.   All their delegates are intensely curious about what the corporate shrimp will be like in Chicago.

27.   But African delegates have been conspicuously quiet on the issue of present-day slavery in Sudan and Mauritania.

28.   But early sessions got under way as delegates were spirited to work under extreme security.

29.   But some delegates were undeterred.

30.   But the delegates were stoic in formal coats, wigs and frilly shirtfronts, swatting and sweating through the hot, slow hours as they debated the treasonous document.