For the country's sake, let's hope that a censure vote will close this ugly chapter and allow us to get on with more important things.

How did it come to this point, this ugly chapter in what is amusingly called Western civilization?

"An ugly chapter in my life has ended," DiBella said.

For 50 years this ugly chapter was buried, and then exhumed by a new generation.

If Bettman and Burke don't quickly get a handle on the current drift, history could repeat itself or even write a new, uglier chapter.

She desperately hopes to put the ugly chapter behind them.

"This was an ugly chapter for us, and there was a motivation to get this behind us," he said.

"We're all praying that the Sahara will be sold so we can turn the page on an ugly chapter."

Their end, and the end of the Napoleon mob, closed an ugly chapter of organized crime.

"Put an end to this ugly chapter in the history of the Olympic Games," he said.