31.   Next to Payton, Washington Wizards point guard Rod Strickland nodded agreement.

32.   Rauco, his cousin, nodded agreement.

33.   Ruthie nods agreement.

34.   Sad nodded his agreement.

35.   She nods tacit agreement.

36.   Sitting beside her, Natashia Townsend and Tsai Lin Chen nodded agreement.

37.   She then showed the ballot to the Bush and Gore lawyers, who squinted at the ballot, nodded their agreement and took copius notes.

38.   The president nodded his agreement.

39.   The Senate negotiators, Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., nodded agreement.

40.   There is a lesson here, but be careful how you nod your agreement of that.