61.   And who better than the hulking Weicker himself, a maverick politician long known for intellectual honesty and an imposing physical presence?

62.   And who better than Tom Watson to come to the rescue?

63.   And who better than Willie Brown to ensure that however we define the Gulch, San Francisco gets most of the glory.

64.   And who better than Keitel and Winslet to go at it?

65.   And, of course, better than yourself?

66.   And, yes, better than the Oklahoma Sooners.

67.   And, in this country, funds invested in small-company stocks did better than their large-company counterparts.

68.   Are there five shows better than these two?

69.   As a moral person, is she any better than her torturer if she extracts a confession at gunpoint?

70.   As a result, older men and women often perform the same mental tasks as well or better than much younger people.