Mr. Paterson, however, seemed certain on Saturday that he would prevail.
The extent of any threat posed by the two men was far from certain on Friday.
OTTAWA — Canada's plan to buy 65 F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin grew less certain on Tuesday after a scathing report by the country's auditor general.
Mr. Schmidt said yesterday that the company had dealt with routine computer virus incidents in September and could not be certain on Friday that the incidents were unrelated to the break-in.
MANILA — Senator Benigno S. Aquino III, who appeared almost certain on Tuesday to become the Philippines' next president, said he had never imagined running for the nation's highest office until he was urged on by supporters grieving over the death of his mother last August.
ALBANY — Lawmakers who gathered here for a special session appeared almost certain on Monday night to set aside a package of spending cuts proposed by Gov. David A. Paterson, leaving this year's state budget hundreds of millions of dollars out of balance as the governor-elect, Andrew M. Cuomo, prepares to take office on Jan . 1
On Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney called new attacks "almost certain"; on Monday, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, warned that Israeli-style suicide attacks were "inevitable"; and on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said that terrorists would "inevitably" obtain weapons of mass destruction.
But at a certain point on Thursday my experience shifted from feeling caught up within the poetic vagaries of a live work to constructing, from a remove, intellectual hypotheses about it.
His latest work, "Film Socialisme," is to be screened in Un Certain Regard on Monday, and he is expected to follow with one of his unique press conferences, which many find more fun than his recent movies.
He said she was "grossly psychotic" the day after the killings but that the evidence of psychosis was far less certain on the day of the attack.
