There was a time when being anointed to the leadership was a matter of connections.
Their view is that it is a crude matter of connections, that Crozier is part of a charmed circle of former Mars and Asda executives linked to ITV chairman Archie Norman and former Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton.
But apparently it is more a matter of connections, as Valleywag's coverage suggests: Before Tom made it, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel gave a warm-up, telling the crowd of Yahoos that "hell no," they didn't pay Tom to come ("He does a 20mil movie and gets a big part of the gross so he's doing just fine"), and that Top Gun boy flew himself in today.
By now, the distinction is less a question of taste for some small segment of amateur athletes than a matter of identity, connection, tradition in a city that revels in all it has created — from pizza to skyscrapers — through impromptu breaking of rules.
It may simply be a matter of chance connections - old links between Hamza and Hassan that date back to the Afghan war.
THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS (Pantheon, $21.95) finds Mma Ramotswe pondering the profound matter of human connections, particularly among people like Manka Sebina, adopted as a child and longing for identity and family.
Slacker is also better on sound quality on the BlackBerry, because it delivers songs in stereo, no matter what kind of connection your phone has.
You will need to do this no matter what type of connection you plan to use.
Now, at last, she seems to realise that detachment is a matter of choice, and connection can always be recovered; it is, one might say, our native gift.
