41.   She said she did not plan to attend forums for the other two candidates.

42.   That leaves Australia, Germany and Iceland as the only other candidates for four vacancies reserved this year for Western countries.

43.   The board has scheduled interviews Friday with Goldstein and the two other candidates.

44.   The four other Democratic candidates support Vermont-style civil unions, which provide most of the legal benefits of marriage but are not recognized by other states.

45.   The four other Democratic gubernatorial candidates have weaknesses of their own.

46.   The only other candidate to file such papers is a Democrat, former senator and basketball star Bill Bradley, who formed an exploratory committee earlier this month.

47.   The only other candidate, former UC Davis head coach Bob Foster, would say only that he was not going to get the job.

48.   The only other publicly declared candidate for the job is Eisuke Sakakibara, a former vice finance minister of Japan.

49.   The only other remaining candidate for the USC job is former New England Patriots coach Pete Carroll.