31.   Actually, the museum has three pieces of rope, each identified by somebody as the right one and each a different length and diameter.

32.   After one icon was returned slightly damaged, the museum had a bulletproof glass capsule built to order by a Russian defense factory to protect the icons during travel.

33.   After all, most of the tourists have gone home, museums have shorter lines and the weather can be the best of the year.

34.   After years of loopy management, this museum also has a new director.

35.   Along with their many standout exhibitions and acquisitions, record-breaking crowds and ambitious expansion plans, museums also had to contend with criticism about their collecting policies.

36.   All three museums had Paine Webber as its corporate sponsor.

37.   But at the time, the museum did not have all the money in place.

38.   But few museums have blue whale skeletons, and none as large as this one is expected to be, once the bones have been cleaned and assembled.

39.   But museums also have to be choosy.

40.   But museums have a right to insist a claim of ownership be proved.