  In this presentation, I review the status of selected
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements and their role in the Unitarity
Triangle (UT). Since this conference concluded, many new results have been
finalized and are included in the new world averages (WAs) in the 2002 edition
of the PDG. I will focus here on some outstanding issues in the measurements of
the CKM elements in the third row and column.
