21.   Both proved less than spectacularly successful as history painters.

22.   But before my mom died, she got to see her son become successful as a boxer.

23.   But on the second, Philip Morris will be about as successful as the restaurant that tries to separate food from cigarettes by roping off a nonsmoking section.

24.   But Ms. Zhang has been more successful as an evangelist than a trouble-shooter.

25.   But none have been as politically successful as Gore.

26.   But the center has been especially successful as a petri dish for new art.

27.   But that limits the pool greatly, and few of their candidates have been as successful as Rongen, who teams combine flair and pragmatism.

28.   But the skull session was about as successful as the introduction of New Coke.

29.   But the success of the concert series was creating problems at the Alternative Museum, which was also increasingly successful as an art gallery.

30.   But the Western Conference championship is a complete vindication of a man whose torturers were nearly as successful as his own penchant for self-destruction.