Mr. Clinton is making India the 62d foreign country he has visited, a position down the list that some Indians have noted unhappily, and he arrives almost as a lame-duck president, with little opportunity to capitalize afterward on diplomatic gains.
Unfortunately, the morning they arrived, almost the length and breadth of the country, the tops were cut off the tulips.
Indeed, when Cyril Renaud, now 29, arrived almost two years ago, he seemed to be having trouble melding the old with the new.
In the speech to the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation last October, he described himself as having arrived "almost exhausted, just having poured it all out to get where I thought I wanted to go".
Rahman had arrived almost a month before the fight, saying he wanted the extra time to adjust.
When Flanagan arrived almost three years ago, the charity had 180 local outposts each staffed, he says, by three or four people.
Even briefer was the smile, almost a shy look of self-satisfaction, from a 26-year-old Brazilian who had arrived, almost unheralded, in German soccer from the Swiss leagues where he had settled as a teenager.
Police arrived almost immediately.
Closure arrived almost immediately.
The first goal arrived almost immediately.
