Other common but questionable practices drawing increasing attention include conflicts of interest and big payments by foundations to their trustees.
Cheaper ways to avoid drawing attention include avoiding puffy descriptions as well as getting the facts right, including square footage.
Other cases that attracted similar media attention include the Hope for Laura campaign as well as a similar initiative to send a teenager from Dublin to the clinic.
Matters that require the board's attention include contract approval, student suspensions, disciplinary action against an employee and cases involving community school board members, he said.
Other signs of fatherly attention include, in a shelf-lined nook on the third floor, a collection of his children's grade-school efforts in ceramics.
His list of vehicles for government attention include tax policy, child-care support, schools, truancy, jobs for young people, flexible working hours, parental leave, sex education and opportunities for advancement for residents of inner-city neighborhoods.
Other films drawing attention include Kim Ki-duk's Pieta, the brutal story of a debt collector who cripples those who are unable to pay him until he meets a woman who claims to be his mother.
Repeats from last week still worthy of attention include Alan Plater's Close the Coalhouse Door at Northern Stage in Newcastle and David Eldridge's fine new version of Miss Julie is in the main house at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.
Potential candidates who have drawn some early attention include Kemal Dervis, a senior official at the Brookings Institute and a former Turkish finance minister, and Mohamed A. El-Erian, the chief executive office of Pimco, the bond fund giant.
