The American went on: "Because of the rain, the course particularly favours someone who can hit the ball high, long and straight.
At this early stage, the conventional wisdom favours someone from eastern Europe (a region yet to take a turn in providing a secretary general) and a woman (all eight holders of the position thus far have been men).
And when you set a quota to discriminate in favour of someone, logic dictates that you discriminate against someone else.
Too often, boards are seen as either the final resting place for a person in their career or as a favour to someone.
I frequently seem to need a favour from someone but can rarely return it.
If that's the circumstance, then the prime minister needs urgently to abdicate his responsibility in favour of someone with more digital nous.
But if you want to read an accurate report of an event, you should probably avoid the literary lion in favour of someone with decent shorthand.
How could a press regulator, which is committed to support and defend freedom of expression, do other than rule in favour of someone freely expressing themselves?
The new prime minister-designate, Kamal Ganzouri, a trusted Mubarak-era apparatchik, has been struggling to assemble a cabinet amid calls for him to stand down in favour of someone with revolutionary credentials.
For all I know they are still very happy together, but it took me a long time to recover from being dumped in favour of someone whose breakfast choices were quite so, well, odd.
