What earned the loudest guffaws was a song.
What earned the fledgling conductor the role of music director, said Diane Salisbury, La Jolla Symphony's executive director, was his knack for inspiring the performers.
His success in reshaping that troubled department -- where inmate stabbings and violence against officers had surged -- is largely what earned him his new job.
His version of the game - and what earned him the patent - consists of plastic and ball-bearing pieces that are played on a court made from vinyl squares that can be arranged to fit most anywhere.
That combination of experience and relative liberalism is what earned him the job of interim prime minister after Mr. Ben Ali fled on Jan . 14and mounting street protests forced the sitting prime minister to resign soon after.
That was what earned him a crack at the England job in the first place and though he behaved foolishly, to use the FA chairman Greg Clarke's phrase, the cost was entirely to himself.
