In Britain, a committee under Derek Higgs, an investment banker, is expected to recommend that boards be more open about how they appoint non-executive directors.
Added to that was a failure to reach any agreement about how to appoint the verification body, the membership of a code committee and even about public consultation on the code.
This backstage presidential drama was a combination of highly researched realism – viewers learned precisely how to appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court or assassinate a foreign potentate – and liberal fantasy: Martin Sheen's wise, articulate, Nobel prize-winning Jed Bartlet served as consolation to moderate Americans during the Dubya years.
The federal commission has no power to force the city to adopt its proposals, and the report left unspecified the details of how to appoint such prosecutors, or what powers they would have, suggesting that would be up to the mayor and the City Council.
While American forces worked through their plan to envelop the Baghdad region, Bush administration officials in Washington were debating when and how to appoint an interim government that might establish a political beachhead in the country and provide new leverage on Iraqi Army and civilian officials who have so far refused to break their allegiance to Mr. Hussein.
Rather, structural differences are what seem to matter: how justices are appointed, how long they serve -- and also how they behave once on the bench.
Here we are, three decades later, and Henry-haters cry: How dare Bush appoint this scourge of leakers to a job that requires the exposure of embarrassments in the intelligence world?
But with every college in the country recruiting from the same crop of talent at once, how can everyone appoint a high quality candidate?
How do you appoint the people who will appoint the board of the new regulator, to make sure it's independent of government and newspapers?
How they are appointed and how their performance is managed would have to be subject to public inspection and appraisal.
