In a literary career that spans 40 years, Heaney's appointed subject matter has been largely extra-curricular: Irish nationalism, "Orange Drums", the sod and silage of his father's 45-acre farm at Mossbawm, County Derry.
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb is currently a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia but has been appointed subject convenor and senior lecturer for history at New College of the Humanities, an independent university college based in Bloomsbury in central London.
We do this by appointing passionate subject specialists, setting a culture of high expectations and making sure all students are supported and encouraged to achieve the best they possibly can.
Central bankers are, in effect, public servants: they are appointed by (or subject to the approval of) governments.
Whoever is appointed will be subject to rigorous oversight and scrutiny for quality, patient safety and outcomes, whether they are from the NHS, the voluntary sector, or from the private sector.
Within a relatively short time after their ascension to the bench, the appointed judges are subject to a vote of approval or disapproval from the general electorate.
Judges would be appointed but possibly subject to "retention elections" in which voters can simply vote thumbs up or down as to whether jurists are qualified to remain on the bench.
Even when the first song, "Chasing My Soul," during which the author, star and self-appointed subject, Cass Morgan, sings, "I travel in and beyond the dream," is over, the dream may not be.
He can act virtually unilaterally, going through the city's Board of Health, the members of which he appointed, rather than subjecting his whims to the messy legislative process, which could fail him — and did, in the case of a proposed soda tax that died in the state legislature.
Along the trail of recent town meetings conducted by a 15-member commission appointed to review the subject and issue a report to the Department of Education, one topic of discussion introduced by those wanting to take a few cracks at Title IX with their Titanium clubs has been whether men are more biologically predisposed to like and participate in sports than women.
Judges in the higher courts are appointed by the governor, subject to approval by the Senate.
