| 1 | He threw a glance across the room before he started to speak. | |
| 2 | THE Mongol horsemen had swept westward from what is now Russia into Hungary, Poland and eastern Germany. | |
| 3 | In Washington, a heat wave sweeping the East Coast is pushing temperatures into triple digits. | |
| 4 | The rash of uprisings across the Arab world right now is "a very interesting phenomenon," he says. | |
| 5 | These negotiations are not worldwide poker contests, where Ministers hold cards tight, and a winner sweeps the pot of chips. |