51.   Small wonder that most campaign consultants see nothing wrong with a system that everyone else deplores.

52.   Small wonder that most residents have fled for villages in the nearby hills, coming back only to watch excavation of their buildings.

53.   Small wonder that opinion surveys show that public sentiment, while still behind the royals, is swinging more and more against them.

54.   Small wonder that so many child actors perform like trained parrots, exude exaggerated cuteness or perversely mimic grown-up behavior.

55.   Small wonder that such a book, a universal history in short compass, is one of the great literary challenges.

56.   Small wonder that the blurring of individual plays, always a danger at this sort of marathon, assumed dizzying proportions.

57.   Small wonder that the boys from Redmond are lukewarm about Java.

58.   Small wonder that the NBA playoffs came off so badly against the NHL equivalent.

59.   Small wonder that the prisoner and his student kidnappers find much in common.

60.   Small wonder that Wan has become a celebrity in Macau, where he is now far better known than the beleaguered governor, Gen. Vasco Rocha Vieira.