31.   In Washington, where blacks make up nearly two-thirds of the population, voters went to the polls to nominate a new mayor.

32.   In the interim, the new mayor would work alongside Giuliani.

33.   It counts among its members the new mayor of New York, the Manhattan district attorney and familiar names from the media and the arts.

34.   It is a worthy mission for the new mayor, and the state Legislature should make certain he gets the authority he needs to do it.

35.   It is more than a run-of-the-mill political honeymoon that this beauty of a city is having with its flamboyant new mayor.

36.   It was that new mayor, Michael Bloomberg, keeping a campaign promise to Al Leiter that he would throw the ceremonial first pitch on opening day.

37.   Large celebrations often are thrown by new mayors in an attempt to pull a community together, he said.

38.   Milan Protic, a historian who will become the new mayor of Belgrade, could barely control his emotions Thursday night.

39.   Ms. Kelly, at the same time, was the golden new mayor, a neophyte politician who was to bring prosperity back to the city.

40.   New mayors often promise to tame the municipal unions and then, with re-election campaigns in sight, find a new respect for the labor movement.