The IOC has demonstrated through these actions that, as an organisation made up of national and international sport leaders, it lacks the independence required to keep commercial and political interests from influencing the tough decisions necessary to protect clean sport.
Scotland was already seeking a second independence referendum to keep the country in the EU, Northern Ireland might do the same, Spain was making claims on Gibraltar and Britain faced years of economic uncertainty.
Its business has been built on chat-rooms for teenagers, e-mail, craftily packaged information and an unremitting quest to make its on-line services friendly to even the most technophobic web neophyte.AOL, based in Virginia, says it intends to give Netscape lots of independence and to keep changes at the company's Silicon Valley base to a minimum.
Then again, it is difficult to imagine many producers who would want to back a story that takes a long, painful look at an important filmmaker like Méliès who was forced to sacrifice his artistic and economic independence just to keep going.
"The IOC has demonstrated through these actions that, as an organisation made up of national and international sport leaders, it lacks the independence required to keep commercial and political interests from influencing the tough decisions necessary to protect clean sport," said the leaders of 13 national anti-doping organisations in an opinion piece published by the Guardian.
He said the Lib Dems had always backed "home rule" for Scotland but would be urging a "no" vote in next year's independence referendum to keep the UK together.
"We were really excited about our independence and wanted to keep it," Ms. Corrao said.
But many Sinhalese hard-liners see autonomy as a precursor to independence and want to keep the highly centralized system of government intact.
In the 1980s SOEs were gradually given more independence and allowed to keep some profits in order to motivate managers and staff.
Crucially, the People's Bank of China, which is more hawkish on inflation than other government agencies, albeit lacking independence, has managed to keep the upper hand in the latest wrangling over policy, analysts familiar with the policy discussion say.
