During the early part of his tenure, questions surfaced as to whether he would simply be a mirror of Selig, who had been revered by the owners.
Once the Giants won the Super Bowl in February for the second time in Tom Coughlin's coaching tenure, the question of his latest contract extension became a matter of when instead of if.
And Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H ., one of heR-N.H .'s leading figures onenatiofal security issues, said thermatter could call Brennan's continued tenure into question.
Early in her tenure, some questioned the scope of Mrs. Clinton's role after the appointment of highly visible special emissaries like Mr. Mitchell and Richard C. Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The designated power-blogger on the panel, Claire Potter, a professor at the New School and the author of the blog Tenured Radical, questioned the printed book's status as a professional "fetish object," but defended the value of traditional historical training against those who have called on departments to stop training so many doctoral students who will later find themselves without jobs.
In theory, the new results would not have helped more teachers earn permanent jobs, but Michael Mendel, the secretary of the United Federation of Teachers, said that they nonetheless called this year's tenure decisions into question.
There will be an additional pressure if the side fails to perform at the start of his tenure and the question will be asked again: "Do we really need to go beyond Australia for our cricket coach?" At the moment the powers-that-be obviously think the answer is "Yes".
The world was transformed during the Bush tenure; the biggest question hanging over this book is how much credit Bush & Co. deserve for the transformation.
And while it looks critically at tenure, it also questions the testing industry's connections to Silicon Valley and the motives of these players.
Tom Ridge, the White House director of domestic security, testified before Congress for the first time in his eight-month tenure, answering pointed questions in both the House and Senate on President Bush's proposal to combine 22 agencies into one Department of Homeland Security.
