The single senior is in a better position than most.
Months had passed since Sept. 11, 2001, without a single senior Qaeda figure being taken alive.
"There won't be a single senior citizen in Florida who won't know that by November," he said.
Not a single senior member of Karzai's government has been arrested, and most of the investigations have stalled.
More important, there was no single senior person in the agency tasked with running the exchange rollout.
Not a single senior executive from any Wall Street bank faced criminal charges from the crisis, either.
Today, not a single senior Conservative appears to believe that aiming for a surplus is either credible or sensible.
Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law, points out that there are many ways to channel scientific advice to politicians beyond creating a single senior adviser.
Given that Karzai has not indicted a single senior official of his own government, U.S. officials are skeptical that he will act without overt American pressure.
He was slow off the mark, failing to make a single senior appointment for six weeks after he was elected and indulging instead in endless waffle.
UConn is seeded No. 2 in the East, starts a single senior and made an early exit at last year's National Invitation Tournament.
