21.   Msgr. Thomas P. Leonard, a former member of the parade committee who also favored changes in its management, said he thought the cardinal should not have accepted.

22.   Milbury said he favored the changes.

23.   Polls show that while Americans overwhelmingly favor change, it is well below fixing the economy or improving schools on their list of priorities.

24.   Reinhardt favors radical change, even flawed change.

25.   Representative Martin Meehan, a Lowell Democrat who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, favors sweeping change.

26.   Several opponents of the original Lazio legislation, like AARP, favor the changes in the House version, and no longer are fighting the measure.

27.   Some insurers that are not rated triple-A also favored the change.

28.   That change was favored by Senator Lauch Faircloth, the North Carolina Republican who is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for the District of Columbia.

29.   The changes are favored by the opposition and opposed by the PRI.

30.   The poll was sponsored by a coalition of groups that favored major changes in the church.