81.   In the past, however, he has tried to depict Booker as an opportunistic outsider interested in the mayoralty only as a means of entering national politics.

82.   Inevitably, modern Latin writers have taken a more hands-on approach and actually entered electoral politics.

83.   Indeed, his mercurial rise and fall since he entered politics last January suggests that he is much better at winning power than holding on to it.

84.   It made him rich and famous years before he entered politics.

85.   Lawler, the wrestler who is toying with running for mayor of Memphis, said that wrestlers had an obvious advantage when entering politics.

86.   Like his son, the elder Ford also entered politics early.

87.   Like Dole, that ancestor spent months recuperating from his war wounds and then entered politics.

88.   Menendez entered politics almost three decades ago, and his career has been marked by a series of firsts, according to his aides and his official biography.

89.   McCain, a career Navy pilot and former Vietnam prisoner of war before entering politics, withheld his public endorsement of Bush until two months later.

90.   Ms. Reiter, who had a background in marketing before entering politics, was on safari in Africa and could not be reached for comment Friday.