31.   About halfway into the Republican convention, news-starved journalists began venting their frustration with the carefully scripted lovefest.

32.   After his narrow victory in Iowa and his losses in New Hampshire and Arizona blighted that status, an indecisive primary season and a contested Republican convention appeared possible.

33.   After a Republican convention that was widely hailed as smooth and effective, if sometimes cloying and somewhat antiseptic, they are worried that theirs will prove less telegenic.

34.   Aides said that proposals were being examined and that a consensus was being sought before any announcement, which they expect well before the Republican convention in mid-August.

35.   After the Republican convention, she and Pataki stumped for a few days, then she virtually dropped out of sight.

36.   All three are scheduled to speak at the state Republican convention in New Orleans on Saturday.

37.   Although Dole gained in the polls in the state as the election neared, he still all but wrote off Wisconsin after the Republican convention this summer.

38.   Buchanan had hoped to speak in prime time during the Republican convention, but aides to Dole, the presumed nominee, locked him out.

39.   Buchanan has threatened a walkout at the Republican convention in San Diego in August if Dole selects Powell.

40.   Burnam said he realizes that he and his small band of Democrats will be far outnumbered at the Republican convention.