Likud's intransigence must surely please Arab and Israeli hard-liners.

Molloy has obviously assumed a much larger role in pursuing free agent players, a development that surely pleases the owner, George Steinbrenner.

It is a rotation that will surely please Steinbrenner, who wants Contreras, a Cuban defector signed to a four-year, $32 million contract, to be a starter.

A most ingenious paradox that would surely please that cerebral beer-swiller, Inspector Morse.

This bodes well for real estate and energy interests, and will surely please Mr. Quayle.

This would surely please Sadegh and show the interest he'd taken in the proceedings.

This would surely please Bonds.

That would surely please his party.

That he seems younger than the youths on "Angel Force" is a paradox that would surely please him.

A conviction of Milosevic or Bagosora would surely please more than just international lawyers.