"This agony is long because it's not the end of a government but the end of a system," said Massimo Franco, a political commentator for Corriere della Sera.
In effect, her decision means the end of a system in which donated organs remain within narrow geographic boundaries, resulting in waiting times that vary greatly among regions.
From the early 1960s it received occasional water in a small canal, at the tail-end of a system off the Krishna river.
With the fall of Communism also came the end of a system that had supported artists with studios, or stipends, or both -- the same way it had supported athletes and scientists.
Whatever the details, the move spells the beginning of the end of a system in which spectrum is either exclusively owned by a private company, walled off for government and military use, or unlicensed and crowded.
Defenders of kasepekang see it as the sharp end of a system that is essential for maintaining ancient practices in the face of globalization, economic development and mass tourism.
Although I don't doubt there may well still be difficulties ahead, the benefits appear to be considerable: a more efficient application system, the end of clearing and perhaps crucially, according to Ucas, the end of a system that has favoured the rich for decades.
Michel Platini, the three-times former European footballer of the year, is now the president of Europe's football confederation, Uefa, having spent years as a personal adviser to Blatter at Fifa. "I think that Fifa is like the International Olympic Committee was some years ago, I think we are at the end of a system based on politics," Platini said.
The article was written by Taylor Branch, a historian best known for his work on the civil-rights era, which gave him at least some credibility to engage the metaphor that college athletes are on the losing end of a system of slavery.
"This is the end of a system, not a government," respected commentator Massimo Franco told Reuters before the vote.
