51.   Some theologians and Vatican observers saw the letter as an attempt by the pope to set the tone for the UN Conference on Women to be held in Beijing.

52.   The board took his letter as a resignation, and so things seem to stand this summer.

53.   The lawsuit pointed to those letters as evidence of a pattern.

54.   The minister fills in the blank space using the postmark date of the letter as the day of ordination.

55.   The official described the letter as nearly identical to the letter sent to Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, and apparently laced with white powder.

56.   The Republicans viewed the letter as an enormous prize, proof in an official Pentagon statement that military ballots were often not postmarked.

57.   The other was a letter from the Democrats on the committee that denounced the first letter as partisan and baseless.

58.   The senator defends the letters as legitimate, and his debating partners did not challenge his assertion.

59.   There are dozens of other letters just as good.

60.   They often see the letters as routine and are under no official obligation to disclose them.