31.   Cities must turn in letters of interest by Friday.

32.   Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright are not betraying Israeli interests by pushing for agreement on the next phase of Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank.

33.   Companies including Microsoft and International Business Machines Corp. are trying to increase consumer and corporate interest by offering easier to use products for buying and selling online.

34.   Civil rights groups have been leery of any renewed interest by the justices in affirmative action in public education, because they fear the worst.

35.   Clinton and Yeltsin cannot advance those interests by debating the balance of power in Europe.

36.   Companies including Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. are trying to increase consumer and corporate interest by offering easier to use products for buying and selling online.

37.   Either solution would protect the national interest by sustaining the purchase of Russian weapons-grade uranium.

38.   Few would dispute that its heyday has come and gone, despite a recent revival of interest by academics and performers.

39.   For example, it could dampen interest by KPN, the dominant phone company in the Netherlands, in selling cable company Casema to France Telecom, analysts said.

40.   For good measure, he makes a crack about savvy politicians deferring to Jewish Hollywood interests by always having at the ready a disparaging remark about Louis Farrakhan.