1.   But the pundits have it wrong.

2.   It is one of those questions on which different pundits have equally strong but completely contradictory views.

3.   Labels obscure more than they reveal, and yet pundits have no hesitation in calling it an American century.

4.   Lott, who in the House was more of a partisan and ideologic firebrand than a bomb-thrower, said that the pundits had him pegged wrong.

5.   Pundits are having a field day speculating on various scenarios.

6.   Rarely does a pundit have the chance to collapse a ballooning national debate with the pinprick of a single overlooked detail.

7.   The pundits have opinions.

8.   Virtually every political pundit will have something to say about Agnew this week, but none of them knew Agnew like Safire did.

9.   Despite the respect she still commands among the ANC rank-and-file, political pundits have over the past few years seen Mrs. Mandela more as a liability than an asset.