Well, stretch his legs our oldest did.
All the same, the succession rules are such that New Yorkers could well wind up for a long stretch with someone in charge of City Hall who is poles apart from the person they voted for.
After Auburn clinched the SEC West by beating Georgia on Saturday, the Birmingham News columnist Kevin Scarbinsky asked of that title, "Should it be written in pencil or ink?" With Newton poised to dominate college football's home stretch, that question could well be repeated a few more times.
Nor could any other member of the lineup that Ian Chappell, a former Australia captain whose memories stretch back more than 50 years, told ESPN Cricinfo "could well be the worst batting side ever to leave Australia's shores".
The Big Ten's timetable for possible expansion could stretch well over a year.
Trudeau's political honeymoon, he said, could stretch well into 2017 until the two opposition parties choose new leaders.
It's a four-month feast of litigation for redistricting lawyers, most likely followed by appeals that could stretch well past the 2012 elections.
A4 NATIONAL A16-25 Former Cheney Adviser Enters Not Guilty Plea I. Lewis Libby Jr. pleaded not guilty to obstruction and perjury charges in a case that lawyers on both sides acknowledged could stretch well into next year because of complications over access to classified files.
If the court grants the delay, the N.F.L. will remain shut down — no player signings, no trades, no minicamps — until the same appeals court decides the league's appeal of the injunction, a process that could stretch well into June and possibly into July.
And in the context of a delicate process that could stretch well into the next decade, there is always the fear that, as has happened in previous attempts at peace, a particularly rash and violent act by one of the armed factions will bring the whole process crashing down.
