71.   It will be a bottom-line decision, no matter what the chest-thumping Aubut has to say this week about love of his province.

72.   Judge Lance Ito could render a decision as early as this week about which portions of the tapes, if any, he will allow into evidence.

73.   Kubo said Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sent a letter to President Bill Clinton this week about the issue.

74.   Kotite and Fisher talked week about what happened.

75.   Mack Brown was joking earlier this week about the sagging mental state of his defensive staff.

76.   McCain had also been in conversations with Democrats for weeks about whether he, too, might become an independent.

77.   McCain, who is traveling in Vietnam, has been upset for weeks about comments from Bush aides about him.

78.   Moore has campaigned with Aderholt and makes speeches nearly every week about the Ten Commandments display.

79.   Ms. Ozick, who is a well-known novelist but a first-time playwright, spoke this week about the experience of seeing her work onstage.

80.   Much has been written in recent weeks about the rift on the set between Brando and the director, which Oz acknowledges.