31.   But lately the two have been meeting to form a truce.

32.   But Rabkin is betting that the two can meet halfway.

33.   But the two finally meet backstage at a concert, eye each other suspiciously, then decide neither looks like the other.

34.   But the seeds of the coach-player relationship go back to the first time the two met on the court.

35.   But the two never met.

36.   But their aides kept talking into the evening, and both sides said the two would meet again Thursday.

37.   But the two had never met until this week.

38.   But when, without public notice, the two met last week in San Diego, the archbishop of Boston raised the issue of abortion only briefly.

39.   But, they said, she changed her mind after the two had met.

40.   But when the two met again in Las Vegas, Hedeman lasted about three seconds on the high jumping white bull.