1.   Finley had a good preseason camp and is already prompting comparisons to former Lakers defensive specialist Michael Cooper.

2.   Her fair, entrancingly plain looks have prompted comparisons to a young Helen Hunt, but Leelee Sobieski already is carving out her own identity.

3.   Maybe he will recapture the collegiate brilliance he enjoyed at Syracuse that at one time prompted comparisons to Magic Johnson.

4.   Now the ties between Clinton and Blair are prompting comparisons with the ties between Reagan and Thatcher.

5.   Still, its structure has prompted comparisons to some Enron financings that analysts say allowed that company to minimize its apparent debt.

6.   The vehicle is rounder and sleeker than before, prompting some comparisons to the new Dodge Durango.

7.   This opened him up to ridicule and prompted negative comparisons to the far more gregarious Mantle.

8.   But attacks on villages, the exodus of civilians and the deaths of women and children have prompted comparisons to the ethnic war in Bosnia.

9.   But attacks on villages, the exodus of civilians and the deaths of women and children have prompted increasing comparisons to the ethnic war in Bosnia and its atrocities.

10.   Her popularity has prompted comparisons with the late Princess Diana.