Still, even as Mr. Edwards and Dr. Dean avoided attacks in the debate, their campaigns, Mr. Edwards's in particular, were firing off attacks on Mr. Kerry in e-mail messages and statements handed out to reporters.
"The sacrifice of the celibate life has fulfilled its purpose," he said in a statement handed out at the ceremony.
A statement handed to protesters by the Vaults, an independent venue which had been hired by the Barbican, went further.
In a statement handed out to reporters within two hours of the blast, the police identified the dead man as Li Xiangshan, from Hubei Province in central China.
Mr. Daschle's withdrawal was announced jointly by the president and Mr. Daschle in a printed statement handed out to reporters at the White House.
The chief, Aleksei Miller, was ill, according to a dryly worded statement handed out today as journalists and shareholders filed into the polished stone-and-glass tower of Gazprom.
Mr. Barry asserted in the statement handed out issued at his office and read by one of his aides that he could have won re-election to another term as Mayor had he entered the race.
The Perillis expressed support for the legislation in a written statement handed out to reporters: "Having gone through this unimaginable tragedy, we want to ensure that no other parent in this city ever has to experience what we went through.
The Gospel is central to the evangelicals' faith, and a statement handed out to departing parishioners today said: "The Bible is clear that the only place for sex is within heterosexual marriage.
"Our mission is to move business forward," read the mission statement, handed out at the meeting, and to help readers "make smarter decisions in their businesses, careers and investments".
