21.   But he gradually began to get his game and his life under control.

22.   But even in his extremism, McVeigh reveals something about life under a Sonoran sun that spawns independent thinkers, modern-day patriots and, sometimes, kooks.

23.   But life under the Taleban is not easy.

24.   But nobody is fooled into thinking that he was enthusiastic about life under Daimler.

25.   But those changes have done nothing to ease the fear and alienation that come with life under a military dictatorship.

26.   By all accounts, the border closures have become the single most damaging aspect of life under self-rule.

27.   Clearly, life under communism did not measure up to the claims of equal treatment for all comrades, but the ideal itself had some meaning.

28.   Even the San Francisco Chronicle began life under a slightly different name.

29.   Exactly a hundred years ago, Cuba began an incipient independent life under the administration of Quaker school teacher Tomas Estrada Palma.

30.   Even movies that bomb can find new life under the franchise formula.