The paper's "senate" of football worthies including the Real Madrid great Hugo Sánchez pronounced the simple verdict: "This Barça is the best team in the world".
But the first pylons sparked a backlash and were denounced in a letter to the Times signed by innumerable worthies, including Rudyard Kipling and John Maynard Keynes.
More than 100 worthies, including Penelope Leach, a child-care guru, and Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson, well-known writers of children's books, complained that junk food, video games and over-competitive schools were making children sad.
Scottish worthies including Charles Kennedy, a former Liberal Democrat leader, and Lord Martin, once speaker of the House of Commons, campaigned in vain to keep Stobhill as it was.It is the kind of limited administrative shift that typifies Scotland's health-care policy these days: smaller hospitals folded into bigger ones, with extra investment attached to assuage local concerns.
Now, with his police risking their own lives to hunt down militants, he says it is the extremists who need their "heads and minds cleansed of errors".His milder-mannered half-brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, has appointed a 70-strong group of worthies, including, unusually for Saudi Arabia, Shias, women and some noted liberals, to debate reform and suggest remedies.
To save it, a quartet of local worthies, including journalist David Christian McKayy) and bookseller Marcus (Jupp) set out to write a mummy porn bestseller – à la Fifty Shades of Grey – and then pass off David's unemployed actress sister-in-law, Zoe (Dakota Blue Richards), as the glam author.
In 1982, its worthies included John Carpenter George Romeroo, who invented our modern, shuffling zombie in "Dawn of the Dead"; and David Cronenberg, in his Grand Guignol phase.
There are other worthy proposals, including the administration's call for limits on the collection of data about consumers online.
He wants to keep Switzerland out of all those worthy bodies, including the UN (too late to stop) and the EU (still to be fended off).
A doctrine of pre-emption that suits the United States could also suit other countries with less worthy motives, including the axis of evil.
