Analysts rate Mr. Draghi as more dovish than Mr. Weber, making it unlikely that European Union leaders would choose him to preside along with Mr. Constâncio.
Ms. Owens had flown from Los Angeles to preside, along with other art stars like Cecily Brown and Elizabeth Peyton, over a Democratic fund-raising event, "Art Works for Hard Money".
But the world the stern old man once presided over is dying along with him, and so are its stifling rules about sex, race and power.
"It's a humbling experience -- to stand on the site where the First Congress met, where the first president was sworn, where the Bill of Rights was introduced," said Vice President Dick Cheney, who as president of the Senate presided over the meeting along with Mr. Hastert.
He quickly befriended Cab Calloway, who, along with Duke Ellington, presided over legendary performances at the Cotton Club.
Along with Salva Kiir, the current president of South Sudan, Machar has presided over a vicious internecine conflict.
She takes us along to a megachurch presided over by the sublimely named Creflo Dollar.
Mr. Gould spent most of his adulthood in Lisbon, Me., where he presided at town meetings, and later along the coast in Friendship.
Cuthbert presided over the Council of Clovesho in 747 along with Æthelbald of Mercia.
Qusay Saddam Hussein, Mr. Hussein's second son, presided over the seizure of the money, along with Abid al-Hamid Mahmood, the president's personal assistant, the Iraqi official here said.
