1.   But for that pesky fact, the title Kim won last October would have carried her to the Miss Teen USA finals in Shreveport, La., in August.

2.   If her story occasionally lacked consistency and if she stumbled at times over dates and other pesky facts, her admirers did not seem to mind.

3.   Ignorance unburdens them from all the pesky facts that would otherwise have to be argued over.

4.   The pesky fact that snow rarely falls in the South hardly registers with the Atlanta Ski Club.