(He was given a post at the National Oil Company).
After another nomadic period, in 742 he arrived at Chang'an, the Tang dynasty capital, no doubt hoping to be given a post at court.
Rescued by the Rockefeller Foundation project to save intellectuals from the Nazis, he was given a post at the École Libre des Hautes Etudes de New York.
In June, when sovereignty was transferred to Iyad Allawi, a rival of Chalabi's with ties to the C.I.A., not a single member of the I.N.C. was given a post in the new government.
Milingo was given a post in one of the Vatican's less important pontifical ministries with the hope that he would gradually become accustomed to a life of comfortable irrelevance in Italy's beautiful capital.
Dunn is given a post in H block, where the inmates, demanding prisoner-of-war status, have gone "on the blanket," refusing to wear uniforms like common criminals and smearing their excrement over the cells.
In 1941, he managed to escape and ultimately made his way to New York, where, the next year, together with other French intellectuals, he was given a post at the New School for Social Research.
He may not even run again: some think he will be given a post in the Bush administration, allowing him an honourable exit.Conveniently for Mr Spitzer, Mr Pataki has done nothing to groom a Republican successor.
This came at age 20, when he was given a post at the court of Tunis, followed three years later by a secretaryship to the sultan of Morocco in Fez (Fès).
In the early years of the second world war he was given a post in Canterbury Cathedral choir, and it was there that, in 1944, composer Michael Tippett heard him for the first time, prompting him to remark that he "felt the centuries roll back".
