When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, many assumed a "post-racial" America was upon us.
"He must become an example for every official who assumes a post but does not give this post its due," Mr. Saedi said.
In 1973, a few months later, Comfort married his mistress and muse, Jane, and the two moved to Santa Barbara so that Comfort could assume a post at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a liberal think tank.
Wall Street has been keeping a keen eye on Mr. Schneiderman, a relative unknown who assumes a post that has played a crucial role in policing the country's big banks.
But the lesson of this summer is a sobering one: If Mr. Medvedev does stay in the presidency under those terms, he will assume a post weaker than the one he has occupied for the past four years.
In returning to government service, Ms. Caldwell will assume a post vacated this year by Lanny Breuer, who led the Justice Department's response to corporate misconduct during the financial crisis, bringing big corporate bribery and public corruption cases.
If King's decision to run for Senate has been framed by his detractors as a sinister kind of power grab, it might more clearly be seen as a kind of noblesse oblige: a wealthy man in his late sixties coming out of political retirement to assume a post few are similarly qualified to hold.
Since his mauling for presiding over the biggest annual loss in British corporate history, Sir Fred has succeeded in maintaining a low profile, only recently returning to his Edinburgh home and assuming a post as an adviser to architecture firm RMJM who, conveniently, are in the middle of opening a new office in Bahrain.
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