21.   Working out that new relationship has involved coming to terms with a painful past.

22.   Yeltsin ran almost wholly as an alternative to a painful Communist past, reminding Russians that communism meant rationing, hunger and fear.

23.   Without papering over its painful past, Vietnam is looking toward a bright future, and embracing Americans as partners, not foes.

24.   Democrats, recalling their own painful recent past, wish otherwise.

25.   For some, it was seen as the last chance for France to confront, in a courtroom, its painful past of collaboration with Nazi Germany.

26.   German President Roman Herzog wound up a trip to Ukraine on Friday with glimpses into the painful past of the two nations and into their potentially fruitful future.

27.   Her painful past of poverty and broken family was more of despair than hope.

28.   Koloane, the artist, says the one world South Africans have in common is their painful past.

29.   Survivors are now demanding more attention to their painful past, and they wonder if an amnesty will slam the door on the justice they demand.

30.   While he spoke hopefully of the future, there were reminders of the painful past.