Another set of university reforms collapsed when a majority of professors refused to make any commitment to higher teaching standards and submit themselves to peer review.

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Now, a day latter, Kan has told a committee in the upper Diet chamber that he did not in fact make any commitment to Hatoyama to resign.

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An FA board meeting last month decided that the association should not make any further financial commitment.

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However, any president must make the commitment to live near headquarters in Plano.

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For me, the point here is that it takes a significant time commitment to make any sort of breakthrough when working on ambiguous questions.

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So Mr Blair's new commitment will not make any difference until 2002, after the next general election.

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Second is a recognition of the limits of the judicial role, an understanding that a judge's job is to interpret, not make law, to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda, but rather a commitment to impartial justice, a respect for precedent, and a determination to faithfully apply the law to the facts at hand.

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