The year 2001 promises to be a strong one for fiction, with novels from big names vying with exciting debuts, so that whichever footballers, soap stars and video jockeys find themselves appointed to the judging panels will no doubt be faced with a few hard choices.
Donning the bathrobes at hand, they convene in the living room of the handsomely appointed country house they find themselves in to begin the search for clues to their identities.
Female professors found themselves hounded out by newly appointed fundamentalist trustees who did not believe women were "called by God".
Even as independent media found themselves on the run, Putin appointed Dmitry Kiselyov, a television presenter known for his anti-American conspiracy theories, head of the state news agency Rossiya Segodnya.
Lo and behold, I picked up my Speccie to find Maitlis appointed as contributing editor.
A New York archbishop would have to find and appoint perhaps half a dozen liturgical mentors like Bishop Untener.
A recent paper from Prof Colin P Green and Dr Swarnodeep Homroy at Lancaster University Management School found that appointing women to boards improves the financial performance of the average company by 5%.
How on earth was it that Benito Mussolini, who won a mere 4,796 votes out of 315,165 in the 1919 election, could find himself appointed prime minister in 1922?
The campaign has yet to find or appoint key local leaders or open a campaign office in the county and isn't yet sure which Hamilton County Republican party's central committee members are allied with the Republican presidential nominee.
A judge appointed a guardian for the woman, but declined to appoint a guardian for her unborn child, following a 1989 Florida Supreme Court decision that found appointing a guardian for a fetus was "clearly improper".
