Any doubt was dispersed the minute Mr. Colbert ran out onstage wearing a business suit made of Army camouflage and, shortly afterward, declared himself the only person man enough finally to declare victory in Iraq.
Indeed, Rostropovich's own opposition to the Soviet regime in Russia was just coming to a head (he shortly afterwards declared his support for the dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn).
Mayo signed with the agency last month shortly after declaring that he would enter the June 26 draft.
"I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me," Mr. Rangel told reporters shortly before declaring victory at Sylvia's, the famed Harlem restaurant.
He made a speech to Aipac, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, shortly after declaring his candidacy, but for months afterward, he concentrated his energies on Iowa and New Hampshire, not exactly hotbeds of Judaic life.
And shortly after declaring his candidacy in June 1999, Mr. Gore began warning audiences that Governor Bush would sign a bill that would "protect gun manufacturers" and that he himself would not.
Shortly after declaring - entirely sincerely - that "I've never connected the commercial performance of a film with my own opinion of it," he lets slip as much with a sigh.
Shortly after declaring a state of emergency and ordering the evacuation of the city center on Tuesday, Christchurch's mayor, Bob Parker, told reporters: "I think we need to prepare ourselves in this city for a death toll that could be significant.
Shortly after declaring himself the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama, in a moment of generosity and respect for his opponent, was quoted as saying that he was a better person for having fought Hillary Clinton in this contest and for noting that Hillary, like him, had also made history.
