Indeed, Major-General Nyan Win, the country's foreign minister, may still announce as much in the next few days.
ARIEL LEVY: She'll compete with women in South Africa — sports officials there have already announced as much.
Mitch Kupchak, the vice president for basketball operations, announced as much in February, noting the team was "looking at a two-year window".
This, at least, seems the most charitable explanation for a scene in which one member of the African National Congress announces, as much to the last row in the movie theater as to the other characters, "We don't kill indiscriminately".
He announced as much in early September, when he shared his lofty goals for his first season: 5 yards a carry, 10 touchdowns, one play of 20 or more yards a game, six games with 100 rushing yards, no sacks allowed and no fumbles lost.
It announced as much in the 2014-15 budget, and it set up a departmental committee to look into it, and it awarded a $5m contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers to advise on it and freedom of information documents show that lots of work was done on it, and submissions were sent to cabinet about the process.
In polite and muted terms yesterday, Mets General Manager Steve Phillips announced as much, saying he did not want to create a situation in which the treatment of one player would be markedly different than the way the other 24 players are handled.
