21.   Even so, all involved deny that politics had anything to do with the pardon.

22.   Forming an alliance might seem a safer course to Chernomyrdin, but coalition politics also has its risks.

23.   For now, though, politics will have to wait, Scrushy said.

24.   For, as Bill Clinton knows well, gubernatorial politics can have big effects on the presidential variety.

25.   He said politics had nothing to do with the leniency the president granted.

26.   In America too, politics has always had a big entertainment element but in truth, it was far more entertaining in the past.

27.   Judging by the current debate over how best to put together an economic stimulus package, our politics still have a long way to go.

28.   K. Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American studies at Harvard, suggested that the identity politics Bloom deplored have an important place in university life.

29.   Known to his followers as a penetrating scholar, Shach was an ardent ideologue whose combative religious politics had a strong impact on Israeli public life.

30.   Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman whose politics had nothing to do with the Democratic or Republican parties.