The parental deception, the excess, the way in which getting eclipses giving: even enthusiasts must admit to occasional doubts about the ritual over which Santa Claus presides, about the lying that seems obligatory, about the way the myth manages to overshadow more complex forms of faith.
But that wasn't what happened: On the last day, the chair took off and she was left to preside for about 14 hours.
In his first 10 years in New York, Cardinal O'Connor presided over about 30 school closings, Mr. Zwilling said.
Its managing director, John Lister, has been carrying out sea burials for 25 years and thinks he has presided over about 250 of them.
Prankster's highs · In the early 80s Game for a Laugh inflicted the practical jokes pioneered by the US show Candid Camera on the British public and helped to usher in reality TV · In Beadle's About, Beadle presided over the apparent anarchy, often disguised as a policeman, before revealing the prank and his identity · You've Been Framed began in 1990 and is still going strong.
In a note sent to the presiding judge, Linda G. Baxter, about 4 20 p.m., the panel of six men and six women said it had come to a "complete standstill" in its discussions and suggested that further deliberations would be fruitless.
Just three workdays remain until Congress packs it in for 2013, and the House that Boehner presides over is about to set the record for the least productive year in its history — a quixotic goal that the tawny Ohioan set for himself when he arrived in Washington, in 1991.
She presides over about 4,000 officers and 450 civilians.
THESE days, Alfred Harrison lives in Minneapolis and presides over about $80 billion of investments for Alliance Capital Management.
The decision was announced after Mr. Muhammad complained to the presiding judge about an abscessed tooth that he said hindered his ability to speak.
