1.  Any president needs support and cooperation from the nation if he is to conduct foreign policy successfully.

2.  Defensive tackle Mark Smith was out because of a severely sprained ankle.

3.  Defensively, the Tide has been hurt by a pair of academic losses, end Chris Hood and linebacker Steve Harris.

4.  Deputy Prime Minister Zhu Rongji is widely expected to succeed Li, and is likely to climb in the new party hierarchy that is to be formally announced Friday.

5.  Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz declined to state absolutely that Washington was to be the target and stressed that the plot was foiled early.

6.  Denmark's plant kingdom was to be laid out on damask tablecloths in glittering, candlelit halls, before lords and ladies of the utmost sophistication and discernment.

7.  Denmon started before being hurt on the first possession of the second half.

8.  Dennis Thomas, Rutgers' best runner, is out after arthroscopic knee surgery.

9.  DENNYS _ When Denny's was hit with racial discrimination charges in the 1990s, the company took a hard look at what happened in the past.

10.  Denton's problem was to find a situation in which nothing at all but long-term salt consumption was changed.