31.   At the black-tie benefit, reporters lampoon city politics and the mayor takes the stage for a musical comeback.

32.   Hayden, former husband of actress Jane Fonda, turned to city politics after being forced out of a seat in the state Legislature by term limits.

33.   Michael Fainstat, a Jew and eminence grise of Montreal city politics for a generation, was delighted.

34.   Now, Gholamhossein Karbaschi is talked about as the man at the center of a corruption scandal that divides Islamic moderates and hard-liners in city politics.

35.   The issue became a focus of city politics.

36.   Two spokesmen for the city police union said morale is fine and city politics are not their concern.