Mr. Levy said his new task force, which could be appointed as early as today, would be asked to make recommendations for new procedures within a few weeks on how to prepare for another citywide emergency.
Students of Confucian studies were potential candidates for the imperial examinations, the graduates of which could be appointed as state bureaucrats in the local, provincial, and central government.
The existing Knights Companion (of which there were 60) became Knight Grand Cross; this class was limited to 72 members, of which twelve could be appointed for civil or diplomatic services.
Some states have been over-represented (although partly because there were fewer states from which early justices could be appointed), with New York producing fifteen justices, Ohio producing ten, Massachusetts nine, Virginia eight, six each from Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and five from Kentucky, Maryland, and New Jersey.
LWT, which had said trustees could be appointed without a ballot of members since there are five vacancies, later clarified the issue saying members could vote either by attending the annual meeting or by arranging proxy votes.
Another law professor, Bruce Ackerman of Yale University, says that the Constitution, specifically the 12th Amendment, could be read to require a majority vote of the electors actually appointed ( as opposed to those who could be appointed), which would mean Gore would have a majority with his 260 electoral votes and would be president.
The squad for those matches - the first of which is at home and the second away - will be named on Tuesday and O'Neill could be appointed by then.
In the first decade of the 21st century, the Dalai Lama suggested that his successor could be appointed by him rather than selected as his reincarnation; this idea was rejected by the Chinese government, which declared that the tradition of appointing a new Dalai Lama had to be upheld.
The first female bishop could be appointed next year.
The firm could be appointed as early as this week.
"If I could be appointed, I'd probably be serious about it," he added, wryly.
