Buffeted by threats of assassination on the one hand, and circumscribed by the powerful army establishment and Islamist parties on the other, it remains to be seen whether Zardari's skills at political maneuvering will alone suffice to chart him through his country's turbulent waters.
Asked about the wide course he charted that took him around Tattenham Corner on the edge of the field, O'Brien said: "I just wanted him to get a nice, even run through the race.
George W. Bush, like his father before him, charted new highs on presidential approval after 9/11, and after the invasion of Afghanistan.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon chose three international figures to help him chart a way for the United Nations to take the lead in addressing climate change.
"I have been impressed by his wide-ranging cultural interests which will enable him chart the cultural and social shifts in Britain for Channel 4 News.
Even Obama has seemed uncertain of what direction his post-Presidential life should take, gathering a team of advisers as early as last year to help him chart a suitable return course to civilian life.
Ezra's passion and drive will be missed, but we will take pride in watching him chart out his new venture.
But he is no less rooted to a neuron-by-neuron approach that helped him chart the biological genesis of memory in the lowly sea snail, a feat for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000.
Computers generate the numbers and charts for him today, and he says they give him hope for the future.
He said that the data he gathered allowed him to chart a player's development over time.
