*Pumping new life into the Jets' offense, whose leading receiver last season was the fullback.
It has an unpopular president, rampant corruption, widespread poverty and a fragmented but feisty opposition whose leading light is a reformist ex-protégé of the president.
The creativity of Scottish art is meanwhile matched by a brilliant modern literature, whose leading light, Alasdair Gray, is also a terrific painter.
His next BBC4 series, Concrete Poetry: Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness, will be devoted to brutalism, the architectural movement whose leading lights were almost paralysingly in thrall to Corb.
Ming has moved into a spiffy apartment with his fiancee who is a writer, working on a novel whose leading character suffers from multiple-personality disorder.
At events organised by the Federation of Conservative Students – among whose leading lights was one John Bercow – it was de rigueur to wear a "Hang Nelson Mandela" badge.
Opec, whose leading members are Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq, will try to agree individual production targets for each country at its meeting on 30 November in Vienna.
"Well, I was very into de Stijl [the Dutch artistic movement, founded in 1917, whose leading lights included Piet Mondrian and Gerrit Rietveld] at the time.
In effect, the league – many of whose leading members had old scores to settle with Gaddafi – had given unprecedented, unconditional support for western intervention in a Muslim country.
Tooks Chambers, whose leading barrister Michael Mansfield QC was in court yesterday representing the family of police shooting victim Mark Duggan, said its dissolution was "a direct result of government policies on legal aid".
(Incidentally, she had designed the costumes for the 1974 movie of "The Great Gatsby," that portrait of another gilded American age, whose leading lady - played by Mia Farrow - had "the voice of money" itself).
