1.   Already there are encouraging signals that Pataki and the current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, would prefer to dispense with the political folderol of the past.

2.   And he said he hoped the current mayor would make cuts without reducing policing levels.

3.   Apparently everybody but the current Rio de Janeiro mayor, Cesar Maia, and his staff.

4.   Bill Campbell, the current Democratic mayor, is ineligible for re-election after two terms.

5.   A former Jerusalem mayor who years ago conceived the celebration claims the current mayor is exploiting the festival for political aims.

6.   But Fresno lost its small-town innocence years ago, in what the current mayor, Jim Patterson, called an explosion of crime.

7.   But Davis has his eye on the current mayor, Giuliani, to stump for Republican congressional candidates next year.

8.   Daley is the youngest son of Richard Daley, former mayor of Chicago, and brother of the current Chicago mayor.

9.   Edward I. Koch, the former mayor who has become a regular critic of the current mayor, is of the first school.

10.   Gene Scanlon, a friend who worked for the current mayor of Jersey City, had a question.