1.  As the Russian captain in Murmansk understood, the Alamo remains the alpha point of Texas culture.

2.  Every other potential vessel has been eliminated as a suspect, the Coast Guard told the judge who ordered the arrests of the Russian captain and his officers.

3.  He said the Russian captain had told him that he was seeing the woman.

4.  A Russian captain is missing at sea after his tanker was shipwrecked in a storm in the Sea of Japan, the ITAR-Tass news agency said Thursday.

5.  But Russian captain Viktor Onopko said the coach had not been so hard on the players.

6.  Despite his experience, the Russian captain is not immune to the sting of a first- round World Cup exit.

7.  No laser was found on the ship and the Russian captain denied having any such equipment.

8.  Russian captain Victor Onopko kicked the ball out from the goal line the first time.

9.  Safin slumped in his courtside chair, consoled by Russian captain Shamil Tarpischev and Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

10.  Russian captain Dmitri Gorchkov begged to differ.