1.   A nation that worried three weeks ago about which president would pick judges now confronts the prospect of judges picking a president.

2.   Each president picked the next nominee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and each nominee won handily against largely token opposition, by fraud when necessary.

3.   In choosing James, the president picked someone with extensive experience in the private sector as well as at both federal agencies responsible for antitrust enforcement.

4.   In doing so, the president picked mainstream economists and once again found himself pushed by political events into a centrist position.

5.   Kass, of the University of Chicago, left Bush with such a good impression that the president picked him to head a presidential advisory council on bioethics issues.

6.   Of course, a president must pick the right fights.

7.   No modern president has picked an attorney general from the opposite party.

8.   One backer of Torricelli, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the president should pick a more moderate chairman than Dodd.

9.   Our presidents pick thousands of job-holders.

10.   That is not what happens when a president picks federal judges.