Like Shakespeare, he inspires radical and contentious interpretation – especially in Germany, where history casts a long shadow and directors rule the opera stage.
That was an apparent breach of the league's new "owners and directors" rule, adopted just nine days earlier, which requires clubs to "pre-notify" the league in advance of a takeover of who the new owners and directors are, so they can be passed as "fit and proper" people.
He cannot be elected right now because the Hall of Fame's board of directors ruled in 1992 -- shortly before Rose was to become eligible -- that anyone on baseball's ineligible list could not be admitted.
Ferguson, along with fellow league directors, ruled in favor of the Grays' Vice-President Charles Chase, and Devlin was ordered to remain with the Grays.
Summoned to arbitrate, the tournament director ruled against the Italians, and was upheld by an appeals committee.
On Monday night, Tom Foley, an NFL Films technical director, ruled that the new harness system would be safe to use on the sidelines in Houston.
By Thursday, after two more Lin-led victories, Mr. Lee spent what appeared to be most of his afternoon fielding, then tweaking, his followers' suggestions: Jeremy "I just converted all the Nets fans in Brook" Lin ("YES," the director ruled); Jeremy "Do you believe" Lin Lifee after Love" ("NO WAY"); Jeremy "Like Marvin Gaye Sang, I'll Give Ya Sexual Hea" Lin ("WINNER").
A year prior, football players at Northwestern University had sought and had received preliminary approval to unionize after a regional National Labor Relations Board director ruled that they were employees of the university, a decision that was later made moot when the national NLRB dismissed the players' petition.
If women become media relations directors, the rules of engagement between the news media and the athletes will become less contentious.
Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro has become the latest director to rule himself out of contention for the new trilogy of Star Wars films.
After decades of debate and over the opposition of nearly every major medical organization and 79 percent of residency-program directors, new rules went into effect that abolished 30-hour overnight shifts for first-year residents.
