11.   Adding to the political drama, Sharpton has made clear that one of his major goals is to defeat Ms. Wooten.

12.   But serious political dramas set in Washington have been rare on television and, for that matter, in movies.

13.   But not far beneath the surface of the historic political drama loomed a broader, more transcendent issue.

14.   But the best political drama treats its audience as grown-ups and its characters as human, or at least partly human.

15.   But the first Fordice-Molpus confrontation -- a debate before a statewide business assembly -- was less primetime political drama than daytime soap opera.

16.   By now, much of the public is accustomed to the low-level political drama of a Medusa-like Lady Thatcher hissing at a pinstripe-suited Perseus.

17.   Citing the lack of any real political drama, all of the major networks are planning to scale back coverage of the conventions.

18.   Even his detractors will have to concede, too, that he gave New York three weeks of political drama that no one is likely to forget.

19.   For someone immersed in a great political drama, Chuck Burton is a decidedly apolitical person.

20.   From his own perspective, his friends say, Powell has no option except to allow the political drama to unfold.