At the subsequent White House ceremony, Lt. Col. Greg Gadson stood in the front row and was the object of much attention from Bush and Coach Tom Coughlin, the ceremony's lone speakers.
The lone fluent Arabic speaker on the assault team questioned them.
For Democrats, recruiting a lone Republican to dump the speaker opens the door for renegades in their own ranks to threaten dysfunction somewhere over the horizon.
Emanating from four bullhorn speakers mounted on a lone pole, the jazzy keyboard notes fill what is normally a silence broken only by birdsong and the occasional whoosh of the wind.
The Wanted also lays claim to a tremendous poem about insomnia ("Desert: Insomnia") in which the speaker is likened to a lone student in a "windowless classroom".
South Africa's devotion to the Westminster parliamentary system, a figleaf of democracy over barbarism, meant that the Speaker was bound to let this "lone Prog" speak, and ministers had to answer her questions.
Near the end of the hourlong ceremony, a surprise speaker brought the audience to its feet: the lone survivor of the attack, Natasha Aeriel, 19, who would have started her junior year this month.
Parker was not a lone wacko milling around in the hallway; she was a speaker invited by the Family Research Council.
