1.   Ashdown last week joined a Cabinet committee on constitutional reform, an unusual development in Britain, where there is no tradition of coalition politics.

2.   At his news conference on Saturday, Mfume spoke of the need for the NAACP to maintain a commitment to coalition politics with whites and others.

3.   After the collapse of wartime coalition politics and the return of the Conservatives to power, Churchill switched parties again and was rewarded with the Exchequer.

4.   Both candidates say no, not in a city that clearly has profited more from coalition politics than racial polarity.

5.   But in the end the arithmetic of coalition politics may have been even more salient than law and order.

6.   Coalition politics is not new in India.

7.   Forming an alliance might seem a safer course to Chernomyrdin, but coalition politics also has its risks.

8.   If the votes bear out that prediction, Labor would be expected to make a cooperative arrangement with the centrist Liberal Democrats, thereby introducing coalition politics into Britain.

9.   In contrast, Katz sought to focus on promises of coalition politics as the best formula for building on the Rendell legacy.

10.   Normally, in the loose coalition politics of Romania, the Social Democrats would get some Cabinet ministries in return for working with him.