21.   It is, in short, a race about everything we always claimed we wanted in a political contest.

22.   Like the Los Angeles riot, the Flatbush assault had all the markings of the kind of unexpected episode that transforms a political contest.

23.   Look at the Heisman Trophy race as a political contest.

24.   More than other political contests, the Boxer-Fong U.S. Senate race has caused a battle between my head and my heart.

25.   Mrs. Diallo said she would not allow herself to be used in local political contests.

26.   Never in living memory has there been a political contest like that now being waged between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush of Texas.

27.   Nuance might work in legislating, but it can be a hindrance in a political contest, where simplicity and swiftness rule.

28.   One political contest where it has emerged as an issue is in Michigan.

29.   Only in a city as racially divided as St Louis could a political contest between two blacks take on a racial tone.

30.   So what did Bush learn from his first political contest?