Expect a long day of rugged driving from Yakutsk, around 800km to the west, if you plan to pay homage to this mercury marvel.

Go there with a toddler, as I did recently, and you can expect a day full of lessons in fragility and frustration.

A first group of 1,000 had been expected last Thursday, a day after the Cairo agreement was signed.

President and Mrs. Bush acknowledged that in 1992 or 1993 or even the beginning of 1994, they never expected a day like this to come.

Like Egypt, the country is expecting a "day of rage" tomorrow.

Traders had not expected a busy day going into the weekend and with next week to be shortened by Good Friday.

Strategists were expecting a post-election day that, at least in Democratic quarters, would be more vigorous, or even venomous, than the weeks before.

"You can't expect a day like that very often," Wallie told him.

Mr. Ricchiuto does not expect a slow day today, even though the trading session is shortened.