He walked into the restaurant and everybody applauded; I walked in and everybody applauded," Mr. Kerry, the presumptive presidential nominee, said of his vanquished rival.

Wasting little time, Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon spent the day after his landslide victory trying to put together a broad-based government with his vanquished rivals from the Labor Party.

For 1868 he added four players from the East and one from the crosstown Buckeye club, a vanquished rival.

A9 Sharon Builds Coalition Base Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon spent the day after his landslide victory trying to put together a broad-based Israeli government with his vanquished rivals from the Labor Party.

Her research also showed that Roman soldiers sometimes affixed small parts of vanquished rivals' bodies, not excluding genitals, to their battle helmets.

At another stop, a plane towed a banner reminding Mr. Clinton of one of his vanquished 1992 rivals: "Cut spending now or Perot will in '97."

But if one priestess was favored, she was accounted the winner and could demand death, dethronement, or worse for her vanquished rival.

There was a smattering of halfhearted applause from my vanquished rivals, and more than a few glares.

But Mr. Koizumi took care to balance the slate of top party leaders by appointing one of his vanquished rivals for the party presidency, Taro Aso, to the party's No. 3 job.

Vicente Fox has turned the traditional rituals upside down, using the weeks since his victory in July 2 balloting to visit his vanquished rivals, one by one, to apologize for his slashing attacks on them during the campaign.