1.   According to analysts who have heard him speak in the United States and the Far East, he sometimes laces his remarks with profanity.

2.   Gore laced his remarks with flashes of humor, promising not to call Bush back this time to reclaim his concession as he did on election night.

3.   He laced his remarks about the crisis triggered by the terrorist attacks with taunts at the United States, and with jokes.

4.   He laced his remarks with quotations from the Bible and African American spirituals.

5.   His remarks were laced with references to anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, as well.