31.   Israel and the Palestinians held talks with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, but all the parties on Sunday offered discouraging assessments.

32.   Israeli officials offered contradictory assessments Monday on whether the attack violated the U.S-brokered understandings between Israel and Hezbollah that ended the April fighting.

33.   Israeli officials offered contradictory assessments Monday on whether the attack violated the U.S-brokered truce between Israel and Hezbollah that ended the April fighting.

34.   Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy offered his assessment at a public conference on security in Tel Aviv.

35.   She declined to give the exact number of pieces stolen or to offer any assessment of their value.

36.   Then he offered an assessment that showed how far China has come in the quarter-century since the death of Mao, no fan of spreading Western capitalism.

37.   U.S. officials did not offer an assessment.

38.   Woods and Waldorf offered similar assessments of the newly reconfigured La Cantera course.

39.   Woods and defending Texas Open champion Duffy Waldorf offered similar assessments of the newly reconfigured La Cantera course.

40.   But he offered no assessment as to when this goal could be achieved.