Q. What about the conservative opposition that surfaced publicly last week?

Lately the split has been surfacing publicly, usually framed as Powell against Cheney or Rumsfeld.

The investigation surfaced publicly in filings by Christie's with the London Stock Exchange in 1997.

The strained relations surfaced publicly at the 1996 party convention in San Antonio.

Some of their deep-seated animosity toward her recently surfaced publicly as a cultural debate.

They later acknowledged that the evidence was supplied by people whose names never surfaced publicly in last summer's trial.

But there is also an underlying apprehension, which surfaced publicly for the first time in August.

Anna Anderson, the most notorious Anastasia impostor, first surfaced publicly between 1920 and 1922.

Mr. Buffett has also been slow to scour General Re's ranks since problems at the unit surfaced publicly three years ago.

"There was no there there," one senior United States counterterrorism official said of the possible threat that surfaced publicly late last week.