African heads of state on Wednesday refused to recognize rebel leader Michel Djotodia's self-appointment as president of Central African Republic, calling instead for the creation of a new transitional body to guide the country to elections.
But his self-appointment as Brooklyn's chief nostalgist deflects attention from the surprising fact that, if the Atlantic Yards development gets built, he will have wielded far more influence over the shaping of Brooklyn's future than anyone expected of him.
Cornelius' pontificate was complicated by a schism, one cause of which was the self-appointment of the Roman priest Novatian as antipope (the second in papal history); and the second, the dispute over the church's attitude toward Christian apostates.
He is a popular governor who could probably win a senatorial election outright; it made no sense that he would launch his career on the national stage with the ugly spectacle of a self-appointment.
What gave him renown enough to make him a plausible Presidential candidate was his self-appointment as the manager of an international effort to get food into Belgium after it had fallen to the Germans during the First World War.
With the self-appointment of the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the new caliph of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, one can see how a line drawn in the sand of the Syrian desert might not hold very much significance to him.
Even if Fitzgerald is right, and forming a union is not the best way for the football players to spark reform in college sports and better gain control over their lives — it is, indeed, a complicated and unprecedented situation — his powerful position within the status quo makes his self-appointment as a labor advisor especially ridiculous.
"I'm a well traveled guy -- this is the most creative place per capita I know of," said Mr. Ropp, whose own creativity during anti-Vietnam-war protests included his self-appointment as president of the White House Distributing Company, which produced roll-your-own cigarette papers patterned like the American flag.
This self-appointment dismayed the candidate somewhat, and Nixon unsuccessfully sought to replace Day.
Still less could he have imagined that this Self-Appointment would have been precipitately confirmed by the Booksellers".
