1.   For Allen it was a bittersweet day.

2.   For Leonard, it was a bittersweet day.

3.   For the Bronfmans, the Canadian clan that rode from the Prohibition era into dazzling wealth and power, this is a bittersweet day.

4.   Igor Larionov planned to play golf with his Detroit Red Wings teammates on that bittersweet day.

5.   It was a bittersweet day for Divac, who spent the afternoon at his Pacific Palisades home picking his kids up from school.

6.   It was a bittersweet day for the quarterbacks.

7.   It was a bittersweet day for mother and daughter -- one of the most unique teaching teams in Los Angeles Unified School District history.

8.   It was also a bittersweet day for spouses who were separated when husbands were conscripted into or joined the North Korean army.

9.   It will be a bittersweet day in a city still devastated by the blast but also proud of the way its emergency workers and ordinary citizens responded to it.

10.   It will be a bittersweet day, since Buhner talks baseball with the same kind of emotion and gusto with which he played.