71.  Any player who wears No. 55 at Southern Cal has to get a look-see, but is Markus Steele more like Junior Seau or Willie McGinest?

72.  Any player will be able to sign with an independent team and become a free agent.

73.  Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro goes so far as to detect a touch of flattery in the Giuliani-as-dictator analogies.

74.  Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said that the city's Work Experience Program, the largest welfare employment initiative in the country, was not intended to replace permanent workers.

75.  Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington, the city's representative on the empowerment zone board, declined on Wednesday to discuss Cochran's new position.

76.  Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington, who oversees the administration's club campaign, said complaints of New York's becoming duller than Kansas were reasons to celebrate.

77.  Deputy Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydkoi offered a different answer Monday: "We were eager to show it in the past, but we couldn't."

78.  Deputy Press White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart said there was no behind-the-scenes effort underway within the Clinton administration to lobby the Nobel Prize committee to honor Clinton.

79.  Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz of Iraq and Secretary-General Kofi Annan had no time to celebrate.

80.  Deputy Prime Minister Zhu Rongji is widely expected to succeed Li, and is likely to climb in the new party hierarchy that is to be formally announced Friday.