71.   Several years have passed since outraged citizens gathered on the Statehouse lawn one night and, with flickering candles in their hands, prayed for an end to corruption.

72.   She noted that six years had passed since the incident.

73.   Seeing a generation has passed since the Jews returned to Israel, combined with a looming new millennium, more than a few might conclude Armageddon nears.

74.   Seventy-one years have passed since then and it is a question Indonesians are still asking.

75.   Six weeks have passed since then.

76.   Six months have passed since the elections, but no one has suggested naming a road after Nelson Mandela.

77.   Six months have passed since the first of the refugee group known as the Lost Boys of Sudan were whisked off to new homes in America.

78.   Six weeks have passed since Californians trooped to the polls to vote on everybody and everything from governor to a way to slow illegal immigration.

79.   Sixty years have passed since that magic season, and no one has put together anything like it since.

80.   That advantage should prove especially timely at the Open, more than two years having passed since either Graf or Sanchez Vicario faced Seles.