And why is the world's greatest game led by such a group of mediocrities, notably Sepp Blatter, FIFA's boss since 1998?
Seizing the opportunity for a revolution in the church, a group of priests, notably Aleksandr Vvedensky and Vladimir Krasnitsky, organized a Temporary Higher Church Administration, which rapidly evolved into a general movement aimed at deposing the patriarch and introducing radical church reforms.
WOMAD was conceived in 1980 by a group of individuals most notably Peter Gabriel (former leader of the British rock band Genesis)—who shared a love of the world's music traditions.
A group of people notably confident about their mathematical abilities — white male math and engineering majors who received high scores on the math portion of the SAT — did worse on a math test when told that the experiment was intended to investigate "why Asians appear to outperform other students on tests of math ability".
A group of leaders, notably Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's current president, has long pushed a simple proposal: if Africans govern themselves better, as they appear to be doing (wars seem to be declining; some rulers are proving honest and democratic), rich countries should invest more and give more aid.
Campbell and colleagues found that a group of diseases (notably cancers of the colon, lung, breast, brain, as well as leukemia, cardiovascular disease, diabetes) were all associated with a diet of nutritional extravagance – meaning a diet that was associated with higher levels of blood cholesterol and blood urea nitrogen.
Opposition to Nikon's reforms was led by a group of Muscovite priests, notably the archpriest Avvakum Petrovich.
That should have been that, except a group of aggrieved poets, notably including the outgoing laureate, Daniel Thomas Moran, raised an unholy ruckus.
The influence of Verreaux was superseded by that of Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, N.Y., where a group of young enthusiasts, notably Carl Akeley, devoted themselves to the perfection of taxidermic methods.
The only survivor is a young boy and a group of zoo animals, notably a Bengal tiger.
That's the theme of a lawsuit filed a few weeks ago alleging there's something smelly about how a group of private interests — notably a huge agribusiness owned by the wealthy Southern California couple Stewart and Lynda Resnick — got control of an underground water storage project the state had already spent $75 million to develop.
