1.  It lacks an adequate concert hall, but Anne Manson, the newly appointed musical director of the Kansas City Symphony, has announced her determination to remedy that.

2.  James Kallstrom, the newly appointed director of the Office of Public Security, is at left.

3.  Roger France, a newly appointed director, will fill in until a new chief executive is named.

4.  Russell Rhoades, recently appointed director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, said state and local officials have done everything asked of them by the EPA.

5.  So old hands in the clandestine service were a little taken aback when the newly appointed director began hugging them.

6.  The Royal National Theater itself is going through a strongish phase under its recently appointed director, Trevor Nunn.

7.  Three top staff members left, including the newly appointed executive director with whom Linder said he clashed.

8.  Vick is the newly appointed director of productions for Glyndebourne.

9.  Walter Bender, a founding member of the lab and its newly appointed executive director, took the stage.

10.  For Sayeed Maqbool Kidwai, the recently appointed managing director of Tata Tea Ltd, it has been a case of a dream fulfilled despite the odds.