And she has, like many recent female candidates, run a small business.

This so-called "group theory" revived Delia Bacon's early model of collaborative authorship and brought together all the most popular recent candidates.

A recent candidates' forum in Springfield Gardens featured each trying to outdo the others as they presented their educational credentials.

This alone set him apart from any recent Democratic candidate.

In contrast to other recent presidential candidates, Mr. Bush in childhood is remarkable primarily for his ordinariness.

After six months of reviewing four initial candidates, the field was winnowed to the two recent candidates.

One woman said she held it against Mr. Pataki that he had failed to show up for a recent candidates' panel on public television.

Color Means Nothing' "Color and gender make no difference to me," she said at a recent candidates' forum.

It seemed perfectly natural when Dennis Kucinich had a dark brown stain on his light blue tie at a recent presidential candidates' forum.

One recent candidate stood up to thank her for her time, she said, and then proceeded to pull her newspaper out of her office wastebasket.