41.   Also on Wednesday, Harmony Elementary School in Overland Park, Kan., kicked off a monthlong fund-raiser to help Houk bring more children from Sierra Leone.

42.   Also, tailback Chris Howard, who was kicked off the team after a verbal confrontation with a staff member, has decided to attend El Camino College.

43.   Americade, which kicked off Monday, traditionally builds as bikers begin arriving through the week.

44.   Although economics may have kicked off this trend, other reasons played a role.

45.   Although Behring faces legal challenges in Seattle and potential efforts by the NFL to block the move, he nonetheless kicked off a vigorous shopping tour of the area.

46.   Although they had never met face to face before this week, the trio quickly kicked off their shoes and fell into the easy conversation of longtime friends.

47.   American Movie Classics kicks off its Abbott and Costello festival at midnight.

48.   Americade unofficially kicks off the tourist season in this upstate New York resort town.

49.   And both legendary coaches spoke fondly of the annual tripleheaders here that used to kick off the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament.

50.   An unshaven Tom Cruise kicked off the show with a slightly surreal, self-congratulatory speech about the magic of movies.