He composed the opera Mother of Three Sons as a collaboration with dancer Bill T Jones; reworked the Faust legend with hip-hop overtones on 1994's Fresh Faust; and followed it with "a cantata for the departed" called The Negroes Burial Ground in 1996 and the opera The Three Willies.
Fábregas departs calling Wenger the best man he has met in football and insisting that Jack Wilshere, whom he tipped as a future England captain, and Aaron Ramsey have the talent to take control of Arsenal's midfield.
Jim Zelinski, co-founder of Save Oakland Sports, a grassroots organization that hopes to prevent all three of the city's professional teams from departing, called the city "the Rodney Dangerfield" of the Bay Area, invoking the comedian's famous "I don't get no respect" routine.
Ingela Ratledge of TV Guide favorably described the episode as the exact opposite of award show segments that reverentially pay homage to the year's departed celebrities, calling it "a wonderfully tasteless farewell".
As Bangoura departed, he called out, "God bless Guinea".
In the days before laptops and email, we phoned the stuff in to a now departed breed called copytakers.
When Shaquille O'Neal zinged him from his new home in Miami in 2004 and the departed Jackson called him uncoachable, Bryant was the game's most shunned superstar.
Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift, left, has asked the Massachusetts Port Authority to renegotiate its severance agreement with its departing director, calling the $175,000 deal unacceptable.
And yet year after year, through thick and thin, never a rumor arose about Reid considering departing or calling it quits.
Parsons has received much of the acclaim as a woman who sheds no tears for her departed husband, calls her housekeeper "an Indian in my attic" and effortlessly berates anyone in sight.
