21.   Only time will tell whether it will be so for Rice.

22.   She was so for women in sports.

23.   Sunday morning, at least, it seemed only slightly less so for Dana Rosenblatt.

24.   That is especially so for couples in the public eye.

25.   That is especially so for jobs like executive creative director, which have been very hard to fill for several years.

26.   That is so for a simple reason.

27.   That may be convenient for the jail, but it is less so for the Bill of Rights.

28.   That was especially so for environmental lobbies, which now hope that the Republican ascendancy in Congress will serve to stimulate contributions.

29.   The floor in one room is unfinished and has been so for decades.

30.   The place where thousands of Americans died is a virtual holy ground and will remain so for as long as Americans have the will to fend off commercial encroachments.