1.   Ms. Tarses was hired last June after a period of clumsy negotiations that involved the recently departed Disney president, Michael Ovitz.

2.   Smirnov, for the record, is a longtime confidante of departed IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.

3.   There were no references to the moral laxity of the freshly departed president, nor a renewed call for a restored sense of integrity in the White House.

4.   They then discussed it with Alan Rothenberg, the recently departed president of the U.S. Soccer Federation and a major mover in the sport globally.

5.   Wall Street executives have said that the German giant has made overtures to James Dimon, the recently departed president of Citigroup, about joining the company.