Mr. McCullough is serving out the Senate term of William L. Gormley, who retired in February.
The 81-year-old prime minister, Manmohan Singh, once a reformer, is serving out his days as a Gandhi family retainer.
Jojo's mother, Leonie, is indifferent, and his father, Michael, is serving out the final days of a prison sentence.
But Mr. Collins, a South Jersey politician who is serving out his last weeks as speaker, remained optimistic.
Now after two strokes, a CBE and a half-decent pension, he is serving out lonely years in Nigeria.
Mr. Paterson, who is serving out the remainder of Mr. Spitzer's term, has indicated that he is likely to run in 2010.
His time is limited because he is serving out the balance of his predecessor's term (Ryutaro Hashimoto was forced to stand down after the hammering the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the LDP, received in an upper-house election last July).
British Army sergeant Lester Ferris is serving out his time on Mancreau, a distant former colony that is earmarked for destruction because of hi-tech pollutants which could endanger the rest of us.
At first, Will, who is serving out the last three months of his tour while recuperating from wounds, has little interest in talking, and he looks at the overbearing Tony the way a sea bass looks at a shark.
