1.   Cornerback Damian Allen quit to run track.

2.   Roger Tompkins served eight years in the West Virginia Legislature and was majority leader when he quit to run unsuccessfully for Congress.

3.   That talent is being depleted, however, as increasing numbers of portfolio managers are quitting to run free-wheeling private investment funds, or hedge funds.

4.   More importantly, he helped to elaborate the anti-inflation plan that Cardoso enacted as finance minister, before quitting to run for the presidency.