1.   Because the New Hampshire results are important not for the delegates selected but for the momentum imparted.

2.   Bush is to arrive Wednesday morning in Philadelphia, where GOP convention delegates will officially select him as their presidential candidate.

3.   Delegates selected Chuck Clay of Marietta as their leader for the next two years.

4.   Months later, those delegates will select delegates to district and state conventions, who will, in turn, choose delegates to the national convention.

5.   On the third night of the Democratic National Convention, delegates formally selected their presidential ticket, Al Gore and Lieberman.

6.   The same would be true of the idea of letting convention delegates select judicial candidates.

7.   Until now, those offices have been selected by delegates at conventions.

8.   After a round of dealmaking in Parliament, delegates will select a president -- a process that could take a month, election officials say.

9.   Delegates will select the members of an alternative government and write the guiding lines of its program.

10.   Karzai, in a brief intervention from the floor, told the Loya Jirga it was important that delegates selected two representatives from each province to the national assembly.