41.   Examiner contributor Erik Stowers is a freelance writer in New York.

42.   Examiner contributor Matt Johanson, a freelance writer, is a graduate student at San Francisco State University.

43.   Erica Sanders, a freelance writer living in New York, is completing a novel.

44.   Fewer magazines means fewer gigs for freelance writers, never a good thing in a city of freelancers.

45.   ------Examiner contributor Jean Schiffman is a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco.

46.   For correspondents and freelance writers around the country, his gruff voice at the end of the telephone was often the voice of The Times.

47.   For the past eight years, the Times has been litigating to control publication rights and avoid paying paltry sums of money to a group of underpaid freelance writers.

48.   Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based freelance writer Pat Jordan provides an in-depth look at the controversial coach and his team.

49.   Freelance writers and their agents are mounting their own offensives.

50.   --GILES TREMLETT is a freelance writer who lives in Madrid.