51.   Charles Hampton had just checked in the night before his death with pneumonia.

52.   Coach Jeff Van Gundy was left looking at a team that keeps adding lines to its medical chart with more injuries than the night before.

53.   Do that two nights before.

54.   Each night before the show they prepared costumes and blood squibs -- those hidden prop devices that allow actors to bleed on stage.

55.   Every day I walked home from school to a street littered with glass from the night before when the drug hustlers had their bottle fight.

56.   Every night before going to sleep, Sybil says a prayer.

57.   Everyone knew Rusty Edwards, the owner of Walnut Creek Ranch, had been cooking barbecue since the night before at his home.

58.   Falater said he had gotten little sleep in the nights before the attack.

59.   Finally, just before I turned in the night before this column was due, a young man in Florida picked up.

60.   Fox has proposed offering a full hour of free time, total, to the candidates on the night before the election.