The chairman of the committee laboriously read the fairly extensive remarks written on Cicero's orders, then looked up coldly.

Meanwhile, Ms. Fields, the Manhattan borough president, made her most extensive remarks about the increasingly troubled rebuilding plans at the site of the former World Trade Center.

The animosity between Luskin and Krugman became so intense it became the subject of a story in The New Yorker with extensive remarks from both men.

But in his first extensive remarks on the strike that has paralyzed some of the country's biggest factories since Dec. 26, Mr. Kim did not make any concessions to workers.

But he reserved his most extensive and nuanced remarks for his interview with Al-Hayat, the Arabic daily, which is owned by a Saudi prince.

In his most extensive remarks on the subject since July, Mr. Clinton said elderly people could "rest easy."

In her first extensive remarks to a Western publication, Ms. Xiao defended her father's record and spoke of his past mistakes only where he has acknowledged them.

His most extensive remarks to the flock of reporters that permanently trails him came early Friday, when, whizzing by in a golf cart, he cried out, "Feel like a million."

But readers will appreciate his extensive remarks on the margins of Dante's work, which offer a deeper understanding of the "Inferno" than the translation alone might provide.

"We would like to see that dialogue resume," Mr. Shultz said in his first extensive remarks on the subject since the latest rounds of rioting in Seoul.