51.  Barry Munitz, chancellor of the California State University system, said he took the speech as a challenge.

52.  Authorities said that in violation of his probation, Slater had taken a job as a nanny for a Westchester County, N.Y., family.

53.  Before even taking the oath as speaker, he has proved that he cannot handle the intimidators he inherited from Speaker Newt Gingrich.

54.  Before he had even taken a snap as a freshman, Manning already had dissected hours of Tennessee game film.

55.  Bin Laden has denied ordering the deaths of anyone, although he had applauded attacks that have taken American lives as the work of dedicated soldiers of jihad.

56.  Bob Chase, the union president who supported the job performance option, said he did not take the vote as a rebuke of union leadership.

57.  Bologna takes its role as a center of education seriously.

58.  Both of the tested employees had earlier been immunized against anthrax, and are now taking antibiotics as a precaution, Sandoz said.

59.  A convenience movement took hold as cooks demanded more time away from their chores.

60.  A different story comes from Burstein, a New York attorney who took on Strouse as a client this week after he fired Litwin.