The city has never held a mayoral election with such a racially and ethnically mixed roster of candidates.
In this case, there is a compelling reason why states should be allowed to prevent late changes to the roster of candidates listed on their official ballots.
"I have no doubt that when the straws get shorter and the roster of candidates gets shorter," one strategist said, "that tempers will get shorter, too".
Egyptian law requires all parties to nominate at least one woman on each roster of candidates, but because many Salafis oppose putting women in leadership roles, they put their female candidates' names last on each list.
They say in private that they are looking for an alternative to the well-known roster of candidates who have begun to jockey for position, among them the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, and the public advocate, Bill de Blasio.
The news was first reported in the media trade publication Broadcasting and Cable, which cited multiple sources as saying Mr. Strahan, 40, had been selected from among a roster of candidates to be Ms. Ripa's partner on the show.
ON THE thin roster of candidates hoping to run against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in her bid for re-election as Argentina's president this year, one of the most promising was Mauricio Macri.
The Conservatives limit members' choices slightly more – under revamped rules introduced under William Hague in 1998, MPs whittle down the roster of candidates to a final two, from whom the members then decide.
New York Republicans, by the way, should flood the office of Gov. George Pataki with telephone calls and letters demanding that he abandon his authoritarian effort to prevent them from selecting from a full roster of candidates in the state primary.
A look at the roster of candidates for the current election suggests that too many again are celebrities or time-wasters.A legal campaign by a civil-activist group, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), forced aspiring parliamentarians to publish details of their education, wealth and criminal past.
