In choosing Cathleen P. Black as Mr. Klein's successor, the mayor made a pointed choice to go outside that growing circle and appears to have taken the idea of the outsider-chancellor to a new level.
The trail ended outside the vice chancellor's office where a hardy group of students spent the night.
Healey, a former TUC official and often on the verge of a cabinet appointment, could have an outside chance for chancellor if Miliband declines to choose between Balls and his wife.
Mr. de Blasio did not become deeply involved in the fight until this month, when he wrote Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, calling on him to keep the hospital open, then joined a protest outside the SUNY chancellor's office in Manhattan, where he was arrested.
Gosh it must be tiresome for France's president that he is seen as the eurozone's fiscally naughty boy, when across the channel he sees a British chancellor, outside the euro, shrugging off a deficit twice as big.
On the way to Madison Square Garden, Mr. Figueroa, 53 years old, stocky and crew-cut, and Mr. Weintraub, 78, jaunty in a plaid blazer but walking with a slight limp, talked about their school in a way that made the outside world of chancellors and politicians seem merely intrusive, if not irrelevant.
To observers outside Germany, the stern chancellor appears strong, but unwilling to act decisively.
She is the first woman to lead the university, and the first chancellor from outside the ivory towers of academia.
"Nobody is going to bring this government down from the outside," the conservative Austrian chancellor said in an interview.
The former chancellor's outside earnings in those two months alone are almost seven times higher than his annual salary as a backbench parliamentarian, which is around £74,000.
