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RANKANDk-NULLITYOFCONTACTMANIFOLDS PHILIPPE RUKIMBIRA Received 19September 2003 Weprovethatthedimension ofthe1-nullitydistribution N(1)onaclosedSasakianmanifold Mofranklisatleastequalto2l?1providedthatMhasanisolatedclosedcharacteristic. The resultisthenusedtoprovidesomeexamples ofK-contactmanifolds whicharenotSasakian. On a closed, 2n+1-dimensional Sasakian manifold of positive bisectional curvature, we show that either the dimension of N(1) is less than or equal to n+1 or N(1) is the entire tangent bundle TM.Inthelatter case,theSasakian manifold M isisometric toaquotient