The font size of the headline prepares readers to expect anywhere from grave emergency to the quotidian status quo.
The problem was the absence of government staff (they will be off dealing with the graver emergencies).
It was not until later while watching the news that she knew it concerned a graver emergency.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office during an even graver emergency but was able to establish programs like Social Security, the National Labor Relations Act and the Farm Security Administration that stemmed the economic meltdown and provided help to millions of Americans.
Mauzy told the newspaper that Prince representatives called Kornfeld the night of 20 April because Prince "was dealing with a grave medical emergency".
Despite what was a grave medical emergency, Sierra Leone and the other affected countries largely continued to function as normal, and people went about their business as usual, with some adaptations for infection-prevention protocols".
Associates of Prince contacted Dr Howard Kornfeld, a California-based addiction specialist, on 20 April on behalf of the star who "was dealing with a grave medical emergency", said William Mauzy, Kornfeld's lawyer, on Wednesday.
"The argument in 1999 in the case of Kosovo was that there was a grave humanitarian emergency and the international community had the responsibility to act and, if necessary, to do so with force," said Ivo H. Daalder, a former United States ambassador to NATO who is now the president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
In the case of Syria, Mr. Daalder said, the administration could argue that the use of chemical weapons had created a grave humanitarian emergency and that without a forceful response there would be a danger that the Assad government might use it on a large scale once again.
("The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit government action").
