Today, the risk is that, if Mr. Karzai is declared the winner sometime next month, he will preside over the next five years with his democratic legitimacy in question.
A man with no experience of elected office will preside over a government machine with 2.8 million civilian employees and 1.5 million military personnel.
Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker_'s_ cartoon editor, will preside over the event, along with three cartoonists who will act as judges — Jack Ziegler, Barbara Smaller, and Matt Diffee.
On Halloween, the Swiss/Chilean mainstay Luciano will preside over the VIP scene with his endless erray of heart-grabbing rhythms not to mention the dude's unsatiable cigarette consumption.
Lee Saunders, the official with the parent union who will preside over the committee, reached a contract with the Giuliani administration when he ran District Council 37 during a three-year trusteeship.
The coalition has said that Republicans will preside over six influential committees dealing with the budget, labor and economics, education and health care.
On Saturday, Mr. Dutoit will preside over the orchestra and chorus, with Russell Thomas, as the tenor soloist, in Berlioz's grandly scaled Requiem.
The festival is too good to be true or a little too too, depending on one's perspective -- the program promotes an event tomorrow night event in which Adam Gopnik, another New Yorker writer, will preside over a panel and dinner with chefs from around the world, "for the deipnosophists among you" -- but it has taken on a life of its own.
Stewart will preside over a cross-genre bill with singers Martina McBride, Michelle Branch, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mary Lambert, Allen Stone and Vanessa Amorosi, who will re-create the Beatles' set list from that 1964 show and then offer up other Beatles tunes as well.
Later in the week he will preside over Mass at Mexico's border with Texas, in the once ultra-violent city of Ciudad Juarez, with a sojourn by the fence dividing the two countries.
