51.   Currently, BellSouth may be the closest thing to a model for protecting and informing calling card customers.

52.   Duke is, after all, Duke, the defending national champion and the closest thing college basketball has to royalty these days.

53.   During high season, the first three weeks of January represent the closest thing to value that can be found.

54.   Eduard A. Shevardnadze has a gloomy face, but he may be the closest thing to Candide in the former Soviet Union.

55.   Edson was the closest thing to an overnight-sensation playwright in years, but no one in Gotham theatrical circles had any idea who she was.

56.   During the following off week, Grossman was hailed as the next great Florida quarterback, the closest thing to Wuerffel anyone had seen.

57.   Even the North Canton Republican Committee, the closest thing left of those old monthly gatherings, is all business now.

58.   Even with his authoritarian air, he is the closest thing to a democrat this country has ever had in power.

59.   Exercise is the closest thing to the fountain of youth, says Griffin, the team physician for Georgia State University.

60.   Fate gave him John Stockton and an open mind, and the closest thing he will ever have to a father.