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Seaton thinks that the BBC World Service, "smelling of pluralism", as its former head John Tusa described it, was among the triumphs of the cold war.

But nothing in the Met matches the notoriety of the Euphronios krater - the "hot pot", as its former director, Thomas Hoving, called it - a bowl painted with a scene from Homer that is considered one of the finest examples of Greek vase painting.

As its former CEO can attest, it cuts into your soul and slices it into six to eight equal pieces.

In business, new-economy Enron was a selection company: you either got it or you didn't, as its former C.E.O.

Calling Russia "a world of its own", he hesitates even to place it in the same category as its former satellites.Even in Eastern Europe's most promising regulatory systems, enforcement remains a problem.

Mr. Cuomo's complaint differs from the S.E.C.'s in that it charges the bank as well as its former chief financial officer, Joe Price, and the chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, who retired early in part because of the mounting investigations into the merger.

Fighting has broken out between AS and its former ally Hizb al-Islam, indicating the lack of a unified radical front in the country.

It has raised money from public shareholders, foreign governments and big institutions, as well as from its former chairman, Sanford I. Weill.

It reforms piecemeal, crossing the river by feeling for the stones, as Deng Xiaoping, its former leader, put it.

Meanwhile, the French government called for elections "as soon as possible" in its former colony.

So far as it is possible to judge, Tyco's shortcomings do not appear as egregious as those of its former chief executive.