1.  Any plot outline of "Desire Lines" would leave the impression that Christina Baker Kline's fine novel, her second, is a work of crime fiction.

2.  Defensive line coach John Blake left at the end of the regular season to take the head coaching job at the University of Oklahoma.

3.  Defensive tackle Christian Peter also left the team as a free agent, but he was expected to be replaced by the second-year tackle Cornelius Griffin.

4.  Defensive tackle Dana Stubblefield left the game in the first quarter because of the flu and did not return.

5.  Defensive tackle Russell Maryland has a sprained posterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that has left him listed as questionable for this week.

6.  Deputy District Attorney David P. Conn said they prevented the defense from putting the parents on trial and left the brothers without much of a case.

7.  Deputy Mayor Marc V. Shaw is in charge whenever Bloomberg leaves New York.

8.  Deputy U.S. Trade Rep. Charlene Barshefsky left Beijing yesterday after two-days of last-ditch talks with Chinese officials.

9.  Denise Guarno, left, a licensed massage therapist, with Cmdr. Steve Gottlieb on the ship's main deck.

10.  Dennis, 35, also leaves two children, a 9-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.