In the Charles Stuart case tough questions were asked, belatedly.
Congress, where Fannie Mae and its sibling, Freddie Mac, have many friends and where regulatory reform has been blocked repeatedly, has belatedly begun asking questions.
So tarnished was the reputation of the police that Mr Ben Ali belatedly asked Tunisia's army to intervene.
Some in government appear to be waking up to the idea that overseas students make a valuable contribution to our country and have belatedly asked the Migration Advisory Committee to gather evidence.
He then reprises the rant, embellishing it with references to the KGB, Denton's sexual orientation and a sweary suggestion of what the man might do with himself, which he belatedly asks me not to quote.
The street value of the recent cocaine seizures was each the equivalent of more than 10% of Guinea-Bissau's annual GDP, so the allure of the drugs trade is understandable.The government has belatedly asked for outside help and has set up an anti-drugs commission to look into allegations of complicity by politicians and officials.
The veteran leftwinger Manolis Glezos, who in the first defiance against the Nazis tore down the swastika at the Acropolis in May 1941, said: "Quite rightly, and very belatedly, they are asking for €165m (£140m) in compensation".
Mann belatedly realized he was asking questions – How close are you to the fires in the building?
He lives in a barely furnished mansion once owned by a copper baron, as Jobs did; he loses control of his company to suits, as Jobs did; he tried to decide whom to marry by asking friends which of his two girlfriends was more beautiful, as Jobs did; he belatedly forms a relationship with his out-of-wedlock daughter, as Jobs did.
I ask him if he has belatedly found religion.
Politicians, such as the Democratic senator Herb Kohl, have belatedly started to ask whether it is growing too fast too soon.
