41.   In each case, local elected leaders agreed to enter into a consent decree with the Justice Department to avoid a full-blown civil rights battle in open court.

42.   In South Korea a newly elected leader, Kim Dae Jung, has persuaded citizens to accept measures that his predecessor could not.

43.   India teaches us that in a democracy the corruption, hypocrisy, arrogance and fossilization of elected leaders can perpetuate destitution.

44.   Instead of simply monitoring the polls, elected leaders might try listening to the American public.

45.   Instead, the first democratically elected leader of South Korea is scrambling to save his presidency and keep his country from descending into political disarray.

46.   Independent analysts believe that bad decisions by elected leaders certainly can wreck an economy.

47.   It is worth remembering, though, that Milosevic is an elected leader, having won three elections that were more or less fair.

48.   Israel could draw world condemnation for exiling an elected leader.

49.   It is just this kind of petty, exclusionary politics that makes so many Americans impatient with their elected leaders.

50.   It has no elected leaders because the situation is too unstable to arrange local elections.