1.   Earlier, court officials left his morning court seat empty in tribute.

2.   Kreutz got on a bus to return to the team hotel and there was one seat empty, next to Wiggs.

3.   The days of having the middle seat empty and a lunch or dinner served on a flight to Chicago seem like a pleasant memory.

4.   The U.N. credentials committee, led by Barbados, decided the leave the seat empty.

5.   For Areiza, the idea of electing a hostage to office -- and symbolically leave the seat empty as some wanted -- was ultimately impractical.