31.   Nearly a decade has passed, his children now in college, his Miami mansion on Indian Creek Island in Biscayne Bay burned and rebuilt, his life changed.

32.   Now as the decades have passed and their Bronx accents faded into ordinary New Yorkese, many expatriates from the borough have found themselves longing for the past.

33.   Some served as reminders of just how many decades have passed since the names on the wall had smiling faces and beating hearts and were not just memories.

34.   Still, nearly a decade has passed since Bergen last played a character other than hard-headed journalist Murphy Brown.

35.   Though decades have passed since Barbara Kurth last saw her daughters, she can describe the small children in detail.

36.   Though more than a decade has passed, the memory still evokes a thunderous chuckle from Carven Holcombe.

37.   A decade has passed since Romanians ousted Marxism in a bloody uprising, but communist-style spying methods still haunt this Balkan society.

38.   A decade has passed since the Wenzels, Hanni and Andreas, had Leichtenstein at the top of the ski world.

39.   A decade has passed since the Wenzels, Hanni and Andreas, had Liechtenstein at the top of the ski world.

40.   And although nearly a decade has passed since the onset of democracy, many Hungarians still consider taxes unjust.