But he has not yet won full second-string status by gaining the position of deputy party leader.
At the start of the season, Kiwanuka said he was disappointed about losing his first-string status.
"He has certainly shown remarkable consistency," said Islanders Coach Butch Goring, who added that Weekes has "given himself a fast track" to first-string status.
But from it are we supposed to infer that Mitch will never transcend his third-string status, never move on from the sidekick's role?
Between Japan's tragic tsunami and the company's seeming complacency, Honda has been in a funk, demoted from its first-string status in design or innovation.
Coach Mike Martz said Carter, who has been inconsistent this season after leading the National Football League with 17 sacks last year, will return to first-string status ahead of Sean Moran for Sunday's game against the Giants.
When the Giants were 1-2, there was no player seemingly more out of sorts than running back Brandon Jacobs, who was unproductive and chafing at his second-string status.
While Casey has been known to flee the backfield quickly and did not earn first-string status until his fifth season, Palmer started as a freshman and is projected as the pocket-protected nucleus of Coach Paul Hackett's attack for three more years.
Relegated to third-string status, Kiprusoff grew increasingly frustrated as he did not play in any games through the first quarter of the season.
The standard bio is a staccato string of statuses and interests separated by commas or periods.
A cynical friend of mine calls this the Book Club pedagogy, akin to treating literature as a string of Facebook statuses about our feelings.
