In a different ceremony signaling an eventual power transfer, members of the Iraqi cabinet, the first since Saddam Hussein was overthrown, took their oaths of office.
But the tragedies that result, like the eventual deaths of members of the 70's Alchesay football team, are not because athletes couldn't break into American sports, and not actually because they never got off the reservation.
This informal process can lead to communication, cooperation, learning, and eventual leadership among members of the group.
A longtime member and eventual underboss of the Gambino crime family, Mr. Gravano murdered at least 19 men, by his own admission.
Mr. Hall, speaking at a breakfast meeting of the Defense Writers Groupp, gave no estimate of how quickly demobilization might start or of the eventual number of Guard members and reservists required for the stabilization mission in Iraq.
Presented in charming 8-bit style, it's all good fun to start with, but the longer you play, the more the pleading of those you should be detaining or turning away starts to worry at you, especially when failure to meet daily quotas means the decline and eventual death of family members when you can't afford food, heating and medicine.
Though Mr. Hume's likely successor is Seamus Mallon, 65, his deputy and the deputy leader of the Assembly, Mr. Hume's resignation may open the way for the eventual rise of younger members at a time when Sinn Fein is perceived to be the more vigorous representative of Irish nationalism.
This would avoid the Romney-esque bloodying of the eventual candidate, both by members of his own party in the primaries and by the Democrats prior to the conventions.
The final stages of illness and the eventual death of a household member place yet more demands on household resources associated with care and then meeting funeral costs.
