21.   Also taking part in the conference was Gertrude Himmelfarb, a former colleague at the CUNY Graduate School, who is a conservative.

22.   Among former colleagues, he is remembered as a good reporter with an unusually clean desk.

23.   And as his former company was spiraling into bankruptcy last fall, White has acknowledged that he had frequent meetings and telephone conversations with his former colleagues.

24.   And before it is assumed that he has the tacit support of his former colleagues in the Democrat-dominated Legislature, he deserves a fuller hearing.

25.   An investigation that was launched by a series of secret tape-recordings by former Lewinsky colleague Linda R. Tripp ended up not relying on those recordings at all.

26.   And former colleagues say he influenced a generation or two of art teachers in a three-state area.

27.   And in a taped conversation with her former colleague, Linda R. Tripp, she portrayed herself as a compulsive liar.

28.   Analysts, though, pooh-poohed the threat that such a move might pose to his former colleagues.

29.   And he avoided direct criticism of Colombian President Ernesto Samper, accused by former colleagues of knowingly accepting campaign contributions from drug overlords.

30.   And he will push his former colleagues in the Legislature for a host of Weld priorities, from the assault weapons ban to the Boston convention center.