However, the formality of the power structure was thrown into stark relief when the US government under George W Bush intervened directly on the subject of .xxx domain names, and then moved responsibility for certain naming from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana) to Icann.

BBC: Technology

Mr. Possokhov's desperately sexy but hardly mysterious rite, which closes one of the programs, stands in stark contrast to "Scotch Symphony, " George Balanchine's 1952 Mendelssohn-motivated reverie on Scotland's highlands, which opens the other.

WSJ: The Men (and Women) of San Francisco | San Francisco Ballet | By Robert Greskovic

That bullish stance stood in stark contrast with the view of Chicago Cardinal Francis George: His spokeswoman, Colleen Dolan, told The Associated Press that the cardinal suggested it could be a long affair.

NPR: Cardinals Celebrate Mass Before Entering Conclave

Stark and his buddies club together just as Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and the others did to form the Traveling Wilburys.

NEWYORKER: Double Lives