The hope here is that a huge business can provide the support and expertise needed to keep our project going, and that it will survive in institutional memory--even if the employee in charge of it today drops the ball, someone else will pick it up.

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Mr. Bush urgently needs to place someone who shares and advocates his views in charge of the Mideast portfolio at the policy-coordinating National Security Council, not someone detailed from NEA and loyal to its Arabist agenda.

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Obama actually put someone in charge of the agency.

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"If there isn't someone in charge it is just the sort of thing that could slip through the net, " she said.

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Now someone else is in charge of forming the teams that will make up the future of Apple.

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On the opposite side of this idea is someone who is in charge of actual conference details.

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Control of Frontera Foods would be split down the middle, against the advice of their lawyers, who thought someone should be in charge.

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Given the choice, diplomats and international officials almost always prefer to have the devil they know in charge of a major country, not to have to get to grips with someone new.

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Better someone else be in charge of bail-outs, he argues, than the Federal Reserve, which he led for 18 years.

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"Someone knows who did this, " said Rick DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office.

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